Author Talk: Corpses, Fools, and Monsters

Name: Author Talk: Corpses, Fools, and Monsters
Start: 2024-07-13T14:00:00-07:00
End: 2024-07-13T15:30:00-07:00
Location: 313 8th Ave SE, Olympia, WA, United States, Washington 98501

Schedule

Sat Jul 13 2024 at 02:00 pm to 03:30 pm

UTC-07:00

Location

313 8th Ave SE, Olympia, WA, United States, Washington 98501 | Olympia, WA

Join us at the library for a special conversation with writers Willow Catelyn Maclay and Caden Mark Gardner. Willow and Caden will talk about their new book Corpses, Fools, and Monsters: The History and Future of Transness in Cinema.
Orca Books will sell copies of the book, as well as some curated suggestions. A volunteer from the Olympia Film Society will also sell specially-priced tickets to the following weekend's trans film festival, programmed by Willow and Caden!
If you're in the Olympia area, join us in person! And if not, you can register to watch via Zoom.
ABOUT CORPSES, FOOLS AND MONSTERS
A radical history of transness in cinema, and an exploration of the political possibilities of its future.
In the history of cinema, trans people are usually murdered, made into a joke, or viewed as threats to the normal order — relegated to a lost highway of corpses, fools, and monsters.
In this book, trans film critics Caden Mark Gardner and Willow Catelyn Maclay take the reader on a drive down this lost highway, exploring the way that trans people and transness have evolved on-screen.
Starting from the very earliest representations of transness in silent film, through to the multiplex-conquering Matrix franchise and on to the emergence of a true trans-authored cinema, Corpses, Fools and Monsters spans everything from musicals to body horror to avant garde experimental film to tell the story of the trans film image. In doing so, the authors investigate the wider history of trans representation — an exhilarating journey of compromise, recuperation, and potential liberation that they argue is only just the beginning.