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The Transgender Look A Summary

The recent explosion of transgender films forces us to consider what the spectacle of the transgender body represents to multiple audiences.

- Judith Halberstam

In 2005 was published a collection of essays titled In a Queer Time and Place by Judith Halberstam. The book features several articles, but The Transgender Look pivots the notion of cinematic gaze from a transgender perspective. According to the underlying proposition of Halberstam, movies that encapsulate the depiction of transgender, proffer a temporary and illogical vision. In due course, almost all transgender disposals roam around the chronological territories of past, present, and future (p. 77). The transgender gaze consistently lingers on intricacies of relationships that are opposite in nature that could include being observed or not, being visible or invisible, and being aware and unaware (p.78).

Halberstam also explicates the phenomenon through comparing three movies featuring transgender protagonists such flicks include The Crying Games, Boys Dont Cry, and By Hook or by Crook (p.76). The comparative analysis of these movies served as an active device in comprehending the role of cinematic apparatus in triggering and transforming the gazes into a perception of ideology and morality. While assessing the gaze aspects of The Crying Games, Halberstam asserts that the movie portrays the conversion of the transgender gaze into a white male gaze and the political skirmish and racism enwrap the thematic expressions (p. 81).

Throughout the essay, Halberstam attempts to evaluate the impact of these movies on the transgender gaze moreover, she also searches for the tinge of white male gaze heteronormativity through the implication of transgender-based uniqueness. Halberstam argues that regardless of perceived flexibility of the subject, transgender involves a substantial severity in term of recognition that in turn underlines the edge of the concept of flexible bodies (p. 77). The instances of mentioned films affirm that transgender can be gazed in different and diverse prospects and the gestures of humor, humanity, wit, style, and normalcy can be associated with transgender through a revised gaze approach.

Work Cited

Halberstam, Judith. The Transgender Look. In A Queer Time and Place, New York  University Press, 2005, pp. 76190.

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