The browser you are using is not supported by this website. All versions of Internet Explorer are no longer supported, either by us or Microsoft (read more here: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/windows/end-of-ie-support).

Please use a modern browser to fully experience our website, such as the newest versions of Edge, Chrome, Firefox or Safari etc.

Embodying the Other - A Cross-Cultural Understanding of Misrepresentational Oppression

Author

  • Eva-Marie Elg

Summary, in English

This thesis offers a holistic perspective on the phenomenon of embodying Otherface. It provides a deeper insight into the categories Transface and Cripface, the latter being a term for an able person depicting a person with visible or invisible disabilities, also referred to as cripping up. The thesis sums up the plight for rights and acceptance whilst looking at the problems involved with authentic representation in film and media, as well as the lack thereof.
As a contemporary analysis, backed by 102 relevant film references from North America, Europe and Asia over a span of 102 years, it dissects cultural methods of reinforcing stereotypes by depicting Otherness and provides readers with an alternative trans gaze in the future of filmmaking.

Department/s

Publishing year

2016

Language

English

Document type

Student publication for Bachelor's degree

Topic

  • Languages and Literatures

Keywords

  • Embodiment
  • trans
  • the Other
  • embodying
  • crip
  • cinema
  • cripface
  • transface
  • blackface
  • Europe
  • Asia
  • Otherface
  • reversal
  • US
  • voyeuristic
  • gaze
  • phenomenology
  • imperial
  • colonial
  • male
  • critical whiteness
  • queer
  • monster
  • grotesque studies
  • gender
  • post-Darwanism
  • post-colonial
  • posthumanism
  • post-humanism
  • elite
  • culture
  • homogenous
  • industry
  • star
  • ableism
  • ableist
  • transphobic
  • show
  • freak
  • representation
  • misrepresentation
  • traditions
  • phenomena
  • bodies
  • morphing
  • hijra
  • Tamil
  • global
  • katoey
  • third gender
  • invisibility
  • visibility
  • uglyface
  • mediatedness
  • media
  • transing communication
  • animalizing
  • infantalizing
  • funny bodies
  • immoralizing
  • sexualizing
  • comedy
  • as
  • comparison
  • social
  • transing
  • queering
  • self-reflection
  • relations
  • looking
  • progressive
  • progression
  • freakery
  • mockery
  • awards
  • Academy
  • ridicule
  • Sensationalization
  • Trivialization
  • Stabilization
  • Rationalization
  • exorcized
  • bounderies
  • portrayals
  • violent
  • hetero-domesticity
  • violence
  • India
  • drag
  • faux
  • pathologised
  • tomboi
  • Thailand
  • character
  • deviant
  • Non-Normative
  • Normative
  • whitewashing
  • old age
  • identity
  • years
  • 102
  • monstreous
  • 2017
  • 1915
  • fantasy
  • stardom
  • Little Mermaid
  • figures
  • non-human
  • super-human
  • actor
  • exploitation
  • exclusion
  • transsexual
  • transversal
  • transman
  • transwoman
  • transgender
  • funkis
  • experiments
  • transperson
  • misrepresentational
  • psychology
  • oppression
  • North America
  • patriarchal
  • Frozen
  • films
  • isolated

Supervisor

  • Olof Hedling (Dr.)