Description: Eliza Steinbock traces how cinema offers alternative ways to understand gender transitions through a specific aesthetics of change, thereby opening up new means to understand transgender ontologies and epistemologies.
Review Quotes: "The greatest achievement of Shimmering Images is Steinbock's contestation of the status of the 'visible, ' and of the attendant concepts expressed in the hegemonic Enlightenment insistence that to see something is to know it: 'visuality, ' 'recognition, ' 'knowledge, ' and 'objectivity.'. . . . Steinbock leaves the reader with new tools for examining trans embodiment with(in) cinema."--Elizabeth Berman "Feral Feminisms"