L-UNIVERSITÀ TA’ MALTA
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DIPARTIMENT STUDJI DWAR IL-ĠENERI
UNIVERSITY OF MALTA
Msida - Malta
FACULTY FOR SOCIAL WELLBEING
DEPARTMENT OF GENDER STUDIES
The Department of Gender Studies will be hosting a public lecture entitled
The Transgender Tipping Point? Trans Representation in
Contemporary Film and Media
Speaker: Dr Niall Richardson – University of Sussex, UK
Venue: VC Hall 101, Level 1, IT Services Building
Date: Tuesday 19 th
April 2016
Time: 17:00 till 19:00
In May 2014, Time Magazine published a cover story entitled ‘The Transgender Tipping Point’ which argued that the social movement around trans rights had gained so much momentum that it was poised to challenge our deeply held cultural beliefs. This idea was celebrated in much of the Western media with many journalists pointing out that transgender people were ‘everywhere’ in popular culture. While it is true that transgender people have gained greater visibility, and that many of these new representations are challenging the transphobic stereotypes of the past twenty years, there are still shortcomings in the way transgender people are coded – particularly in popular fiction texts. This lecture will review the critical responses to transgender politics and analyse the popular stereotypes of trans people before then discussing recent revisions in contemporary film and media texts in order to ask if there actually has been a transgender tipping point in popular cultural representation.
The general public is cordially invited to attend this public lecture. For enquiries, please feel free to contact Ms Isabelle Camilleri & Ms Samantha Grima by phone on 2340 3956 & 2340 3808 or by sending an email to isabelle.camilleri@um.edu.mt
and samantha.grima@um.edu.mt
About the Guest Speaker: Dr Niall Richardson is convenor of MA Gender and Media at the University of Sussex.
He is the author of the monographs The Queer Cinema of Derek Jarman (I B Tauris,
2009), Transgressive Bodies: Representations in Film and Popular Culture (Ashgate,
2010) and co-author of the textbooks Studying Sexualities (Palgrave, 2013), Gender in the Media (Palgrave, 2014) and Body Studies: The Basics (Routledge, 2014).
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