Past Event! Note: this event has already taken place.
Carleton Film Seminar: Trans*ing Popular Cinema
February 8, 2019 at 9:00 AM to 11:00 AM
| Location: | 412 St. Patrick's Building |
| Cost: | Free |
Come hear about new research at the intersections of trans studies and cinema studies! Light refreshments will be provided.
Cáel Keegan, Sensing Transgender: The Matrix
In this talk, Cáel M. Keegan explores the The Matrix (1999) as the world’s most influential example of trans-authored media—a millennial text that narrates the historical emergence of transgender identification while simultaneously rearranging the public sensorium through its groundbreaking digital effects. The Matrix, Keegan argues, instructs popular audiences in how to “sense transgender”: How to sense for transgender identity, but also (and more importantly) how to sense as transgender through its sensorial transitions across bodies and cinematic realities.
Cáel Keegan is Assistant Professor of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies and Liberal Studies at Grand Valley State University. He has been interviewed on LGBTQ art and cinema by NPR, The Advocate, NBC, Vice, and Slashfilm. Keegan also appears in the VICE Guide to Film episode “New Trans Cinema.” His writing has appeared in Queer Studies in Media & Popular Culture, Spectator, MedieKultur, and the Journal of Homosexuality, and he is the author of Lana and Lilly Wachowski: Sensing Transgender (University of Illinois Press, 2018).
Unfortunately, Dan Vena’s talk has been cancelled due to illness.
SP 412 is a barrier-free room accessed by an elevator. Service animals are welcome. Please contact laura.horak@carleton.ca by January 28 should you require ASL interpretation services or any other accommodation for this event.
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