{"product_id":"in-a-queer-time-and-place-transgender-bodies-subcultural-lives-9780814735855","title":"In a Queer Time and Place: Transgender Bodies, Subcultural Lives","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe first full-length study of transgender representations in art, fiction, film, video, and music\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn her first book since the critically acclaimed \u003ci\u003eFemale Masculinity\u003c\/i\u003e, Judith Halberstam examines the significance of the transgender body in a provocative collection of essays on queer time and space. She presents a series of case studies focused on the meanings of masculinity in its dominant and alternative forms' especially female and trans-masculinities as they exist within subcultures, and are appropriated within mainstream culture. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eIn a Queer Time and Place\u003c\/i\u003e opens with a probing analysis of the life and death of Brandon Teena, a young transgender man who was brutally murdered in small-town Nebraska. After looking at mainstream representations of the transgender body as exhibited in the media frenzy surrounding this highly visible case and the Oscar-winning film based on Brandon's story, \u003ci\u003eBoys Don't Cry\u003c\/i\u003e, Halberstam turns her attention to the cultural and artistic production of queers themselves. She examines the \"transgender gaze,\" as rendered in small art-house films like \u003ci\u003eBy Hook or By Crook\u003c\/i\u003e, as well as figurations of ambiguous embodiment in the art of Del LaGrace Volcano, Jenny Saville, Eva Hesse, Shirin Neshat, and others. She then exposes the influence of lesbian drag king cultures upon hetero-male comic films, such as \u003ci\u003eAustin Powers\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Full Monty\u003c\/i\u003e, and, finally, points to dyke subcultures as one site for the development of queer counterpublics and queer temporalities. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Considering the sudden visibility of the transgender body in the early twenty-first century against the backdrop of changing conceptions of space and time, \u003ci\u003eIn a Queer Time and Place\u003c\/i\u003e is the first full-length study of transgender representations in art, fiction, film, video, and music. This pioneering book offers both a jumping off point for future analysis of transgenderism and an important new way to understand cultural constructions of time and place.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eJ. Jack Halberstam\u003c\/strong\u003e is Professor of American Studies and Ethnicity at the University of Southern California. Halberstam is the author of \u003cem\u003eIn a Queer Time and Place: Transgender Bodies, Subcultural Lives, Skin Shows: Gothic Horror and the Technology of Monsters\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eFemale Masculinity\u003c\/em\u003e and co-author with Del LaGrace Volcano of \u003cem\u003eThe Drag King Book.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"New York University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50566331498770,"sku":"9780814735855","price":33.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_65197af6-847a-47ad-9f31-69cca8fb0dad.jpg?v=1731894807","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/in-a-queer-time-and-place-transgender-bodies-subcultural-lives-9780814735855","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}