ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY

This book on transgender cinema, aids in broadering my understanding how trans people have been depicted on screen. Beginning with a history of trans tropes in classic Hollywood cinema, from comic drag scenes in Chaplin’s The Masquerader to Garbo’s androgynous Queen Christina, and from psycho killer queers to The Rocky Horror Picture Show’s outrageous queen. 

  • Rhianna Humphrey. “‘I Think Journalists Sometimes Forget That We’re Just People’: Analysing the Effects of UK Trans Media Representation on Trans Audiences.” Gender forum 56 (2016): N_A–. Print.

        This article helps me understand how trans people portrayed even outside of the US and it also depicts the deceptive transsexual archetype is predominantly reported on as a shock revelation because their “ability to ‘pass’ is a serious threat to our culture’s ideas about gender and sexuality” whereas the pathetic transsexual archetype is presented as “harmless” but “barely a woman” (228). 

This article enlightens me on the correlation between transphobia and gender, sexual orientation, religiosity, and political ideology by granting me a hint of the origin of how trans people’s unflattering representation in the media began.

  • Woods, Jordan Blair. “FRAMING LEGISLATION BANNING THE ‘GAY AND TRANS PANIC’ DEFENSES.” University of Richmond law review 54.3 (2020): 833–. Print

Woods article give a background understanding on the origins of the gay and trans painic defense, and how its a necessity to ban the defense. This article helps my research in ways how the media perpetuate and empower this defense through the representation of trans people.