English faculty co-edit essay collection on new queer cinema
EAU CLAIRE - Members of the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire faculty have had a collection of essays titled "Coming Out to the Mainstream: New Queer Cinema in the 21st Century" published.
http://media-newswire.com/release_1138092.html Juett, who contributed her own essay on the topic, titled "Just Travelin' Thru': Transgendered Space in Transamerica," speaks to the need for social and political transformation.
"This comes at a time of growing social and political debate on a range of LGBTQ topics, which is leading to small, but significant breakthroughs," said Juett, whose essay explores the perception of different genders and the way barriers are broken when that understanding is changed.
"I consider how a film explores transgender experience in two ways: through the constraints of medical discourse related to sex-reassignment surgery and through the constraints of Protestant, evangelical discourse," Juett said. "Ultimately, 'Transamerica' opens possibilities of resistance to binary reduction of gender identification through medical or religious discourse while revealing the actuality of the physical and mental pain and struggle of transgender experience."
