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Summary:

"Hailed as groundbreaking upon its original release, the Oscar-winning film Boys Don't Cry offered the first mainstream access to transmasculine embodiment in North America, one that many simultaneously celebrated and rejected. More than two decades after its original release, the film has become a lightning rod for contemporary debates about the representation of trans lives and deaths on screen. Representational possibilities for trans people have changed dramatically since 1999. Morgan Page and Chase Joynt approach the accumulated tension with a spirit of curiosity about the limits of these historical returns. They argue that new visibilities of transness on screen require us to re-engage earlier portrayals: Boys Don't Cry is central to conversations about casting, violence against gender non-conforming people, and the borders between butch and trans identities. Acknowledging a younger generation of queer and trans people who are straining against the images foisted upon them, including this film's egregious violence, and an older cohort for whom it remains a formative, if complicated, touchstone, Joynt and Page revisit the original contexts of production and distribution to unsettle the overdetermined ways the work has been understood and interpreted. Boys Don't Cry ultimately relocates the film in a way that attends to the story's violence and values, both on and off screen."-- [Provided by publisher]

Table of Contents:

• Intro
• Title Page
• Copyright
• Contents
• Preface
• Acknowledgments
• Synopsis
• Credits
• A Note on Names and Pronouns
• 1 This Is My Voice on T (in the House that Brandon Teena was Murdered In)
• 2 Boys Don't Cry
• 3 Take It Like a Man
• Coda
• References
• Index

Author/Creator:

Joynt, Chase, 1981- , author

Contributors:

Page, Morgan M., 1987- , author

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

Item content: English

Main Work:

Boys don't cry [by Joynt, C.]

Other Related Resources:

Print version: Boys don't cry [by Joynt, C.] (Montreal ; Kingston ; London ; Chicago : McGill-Queen's University Press, 2022 — ISBN 0228010810; ISBN 9780228010814)

Related Series:

Queer film classics

Subjects:

Boys don't cry (Motion picture : 1999)

Peirce, Kimberly — Criticism and interpretation

Transgender people in motion pictures

Motion pictures — United States — History and criticism

General Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on June 21, 2022).

Physical Description:

1 online resource.

Call Numbers:

PN1997.B69 J69 2022eb

ISBNs:

9780228013013 (electronic book)
0228013011 (electronic book)
9780228013006 (electronic book)
0228013003 (electronic book)

OCLC Numbers:

1292740719

Other Control Numbers:

EBC29251592 (source: MiAaPQ)
[Unknown Type]: ybp17974610