Trans identities have been silenced and made invisible for years, having been scarcely represented in mass culture, and when they have appeared it has been under negative stereotypes. In the last decade, new representations have begun to proliferate in television series and digital platforms that have given space to diverse trans-identity realities, from a trans woman imprisoned in prison, in Orange Is The New Black, to a trans man in the middle of the Spanish Civil War, in Las chicas del cable.
The social and political movements that are taking place at the international level are having an impact on a change in the audiovisual paradigm, feeding off all these areas and producing more diverse narratives in terms of identity. Through the analysis of eleven experts, this collective volume, coordinated by Dr. María Toscano-Alonso, aims to analyze whether the representations of new and diverse trans characters in television fiction are conceived from respect, knowledge and subversion of cisnormativity, or if, on the contrary, they continue to perpetrate historically rooted negative stereotypes.
In order to offer an overview of the most remarkable characters, this book analyzes nine of the series that have given the greatest prominence to trans people in the last decade, covering the most pioneering of this stage Transparent and Sense8, through Pose and The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina, to the most recent such as Euphoria, Stories of San Francisco and Veneno; In addition, there is a brief overview of other television shows in which, more specifically, trans representation has been included.
"We have to talk about different trans realities, since trans people are heterogeneous. There are as many ways of being and living trans as there are trans people, we are not a homogeneous human group." Foreword by Mar Cambrollé.
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