Debating Authenticity
Authorship, Aesthetics and Embodiment in Trans Media
$193.59
- Hardcover
240 pages
- Release Date
31 December 2025
Summary
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 …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781399540124 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1399540122 |
| Author: | Paige Macintosh |
| Publisher: | Edinburgh University Press |
| Imprint: | Edinburgh University Press |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 240 |
| Release Date: | 31 December 2025 |
| Dimensions: | 156mm x 234mm |
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Critics Review
This is the first book to explore the value of trans content for global art film and US television media industries and the contradictory position of trans creatives within these industries. It helpfully contextualizes the ways that fans and industry figures alike frame trans creatives as emblems of authenticity and invites us to understand trans media more capaciously. An essential read for understanding of twenty-first century trans film and television. * Laura Horak, Director of the Transgender Media Portal *
Paige Macintosh
Paige Macintosh is a trans media scholar based in Aotearoa New Zealand. They completed their doctorate in Film Studies at Te Herenga Waka – University of Wellington in 2023. Previous work published in Global Storytelling and The New Review of Film and Television Studies demonstrates an ongoing interest in merging industrial, paratextual and textual analysis. More recent scholarship is attentive to evocations of trans embodiment in genre filmmaking, particularly science fiction body horror. They currently serve as a steering committee member for Te Herenga Waka’s Rainbow Research Network.
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