Explore Issues of Contemporary Media: Does the representation of transgenderism in cinema/media reinforce or challenge the idea of the transgendered body as essentially aberrant and transgressive?

This essay will be part of a journal on the extension of gender in cinema and media. it must explore the issues surrouding the representation of gender in cinema/media. I would rather the essay was over the word limit than under it.

Required Viewing: Boys Don’t Cry (Kimberly Peirce 1999, USA)

Law of Desire (Almodovar, P., 1987, Spain) Required Reading: Judith Butler, ‘Subversive Bodily Acts’ in During pp.371-382

Teresa de Lauretis; ‘Upping the Anti (sic) in Feminist Theory’ in During, pp.358-382

http://www.buzzfeed.com/adambvary/tangerine-sundance#.roOnX11bZb

do not incorporate critical readings or quotations without indicating why and how they are relevant to the point you are making. do not use “I” or colloquialisms.

please DO NOT use resources from wikipedia!!!

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