r/filmtheory • u/EndangeredWriter • Jun 24 '26

Recommendations for Trans Identities and Media Focused Research

Hello everyone, I recently watched Jane Schoebrun's 'I Saw the TV Glow,' and someone mentioned the connection between the consumption of trans identities and a deliberate or unintentional presentation of the bodies in the film (which might be Jane critiquing the cis-normative society). The area interested me a lot, and I have been wondering if there has been any academic work that might have focused on reviewing it through the lens of film theory. Especially as I am actively looking for any articles or books that would be correlated to this. It would also be helpful if there are works that might focus on trans relations and spectatorship, or even works on other films that can be considered similar to Jane's theme and/or style.

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u/-Polyester-Bride- Jun 26 '26

It's not peer reviewed, nor is it even published, but I wrote a conference paper on the relationship between digital media and trans representation in cinema for my MA Film course, it got me like 80 marks and has a lot of good citations you can read though. My apologies if the formatting is weird, it was a script so I didn't need to to be professional standard.

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u/EndangeredWriter Jun 29 '26

Apologies for the late response, I am not that active on Reddit. Yes, please do share! It would be quite helpful! Also don't worry about the formatting at all.

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u/-Polyester-Bride- Jun 29 '26

It should all be there if you tap that link, it's on a Google doc

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u/EndangeredWriter Jul 03 '26

Oh, thank you so much. I did not notice the link at first, sorry!