Description: Analyses emerging trans-authored media--both content and paratexts--to deconstruct authenticity claims and foreground trans embodiment.
Brief description: Paige Macintosh is a trans media scholar based in Aotearoa New Zealand. They completed their doctorate in Film Studies at Te Herenga Waka - University of Wellington in 2023. Previous work published in Global Storytelling and The New Review of Film and Television Studies demonstrates an ongoing interest in merging industrial, paratextual and textual analysis, while more recent scholarship is attentive to evocations of trans embodiment in genre filmmaking, particularly science fiction body horror. They currently serve as a steering committee member for Te Herenga Waka's Rainbow Research Network.
Review Quotes: This is the first book to explore the value of trans content for global art film and US television media industries and the contradictory position of trans creatives within these industries. It helpfully contextualizes the ways that fans and industry figures alike frame trans creatives as emblems of authenticity and invites us to understand trans media more capaciously. An essential read for understanding of twenty-first century trans film and television.-- "Laura Horak, Director of the Transgender Media Portal"