[Commlist] New Book - Debating Authenticity: Authorship, Aesthetics and Embodiment in Trans Media

Paige Macintosh is excited to announce the release of their book 
Debating Authenticity: Authorship, Aesthetics and Embodiment in Trans 
Media 
<https://edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-debating-authenticity.html>, 
published by Edinburgh University Press. They would also like to extend 
an invitation to an online roundtable/book launch, which will be hosted 
by the Regional and Dispersed Hub of SSAAANZ (Screen Studies Association 
of Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand). This launch event will feature a 
roundtable discussion with Dr Paige Macintosh, Dr Tof Eklund (Auckland 
University of Technology) and Char Chadwick (Hong Kong Baptist 
University), and will be chaired by Dr Missy Molloy (Te Herenga 
Waka-Victoria University of Wellington). Together, they will discuss the 
state and future of trans film and television.

*Date: Friday 12th September, 1:30-2:30pm (NZST)*

Event registration 
<https://www.eventbrite.co.nz/e/online-roundtable-and-book-launch-debating-contemporary-trans-tv-film-tickets-1661593624259?aff=oddtdtcreator>

If you have any questions about this event or the book, please contact 
Dr Paige Macintosh at (paige.macintosh /at/ vuw.ac.nz) 
<mailto:(paige.macintosh /at/ vuw.ac.nz)>

*Book Abstract and Contents:*

Debating Authenticity merges phenomenology, paratextual analysis, genre 
studies, cultural theory, and trans scholarship to investigate emerging 
debates regarding trans media’s authorship, authenticity, and aesthetics 
across the first two decades of the twenty-first century. By questioning 
how trans people, both on-and offscreen, are deployed within mainstream 
cultural industries as representatives of political and cultural 
progressiveness Paige Macintosh interrogates consultancy roles and their 
authorship status. Building on trans scholars’ new attention to trans 
aesthetics, they also consider how scholars might productively counter 
the charged debates currently informing trans media scholarship by 
reconsidering the categorisation of trans media and beginning to reroute 
the power of canonisation from cis industry elites to trans viewers. 
Looking to genre studies – particularly the intersections of gothic 
horror, science fiction, and spectacle-driven genres like the musical or 
melodrama – Macintosh outlines their own variation of trans aesthetics, 
one that is capable of countering trans cinema'smelancholic tendencies.

Part I. Introduction

Part II. Credibility, Cultural Capital and Contemporary Trans Films on 
the Festival Circuit

1. Trans Cinema’s Cultural Value on the International Film Festival Circuit

2. Performing Authenticity: A Fantastic Woman as a Breakthrough Text

3. Festival Credibility: Trans Consultants and Lukas Dhont’s Girl

4. Activism, Authenticity and Authorship in Rhys Ernst’s Adam

Part III. Trans Branding in the Multi-platform Era

5. Emerging Trans Content and its Cultural Value in the Multi-platform Era

6. Ryan Murphy, Janet Mock and the Cultural Legitimacy of Pose

7. Transgressive TV: Euphoria, HBO and a New Trans Aesthetic

Part IV. Towards a Trans Aesthetic

8. Generic Hybridity and Haptic Imagery in Jupiter Ascending

9. Pursuing Genetic Perfection: Trans Embodiment in Repo! the Genetic Opera

10. Trans Utopia in Steven Universe

Conclusion: Joyful Resistance

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