@article{1446543,
      recid = {1446543},
      author = {Abbott, Traci B.},
      title = {The history of trans representation in American television  and film genres /},
      pages = {1 online resource (298 pages)},
      note = {Includes index.},
      abstract = {Due to the increase in transgender characters in scripted  television and film in the 2010s, trans visibility has been  presented as a relatively new phenomenon that has  positively shifted the cis societys acceptance of the trans  community. This book counters this claim to assert that  such representations actually present limited and harmful  characterizations, as they have for decades. To do so, this  book analyzes transgender narratives in scripted visual  media from the 1960s to 2010s across a variety of genres,  including independent and mainstream films and television  dramatic series and sitcoms, judging not the veracity of  such representations per se but dissecting their  transphobia as a constant despite relevant shifts that have  improved their veracity and variety. Already ingrained with  their own ideological expectations, genres shift the  framing of the trans character, particularly the relevance  of their gender difference for cisgender characters and  society. The popularity of trans characters within certain  genres also provides a historical lineage that is examined  against the progression of transgender rights activism and  corresponding transphobic falsehoods, concluding that this  popular medium continues to offer a limited and narrow  conception of gender, the variability of the transgender  experience, and the range of transgender identities.},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/1446543},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-97793-1},
}