Shimmering
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Shimmering Images
Author: Eliza Steinbock
language: en
Publisher: Duke University Press
Release Date: 2019-02-14
In Shimmering Images Eliza Steinbock traces how cinema offers alternative ways to understand gender transitions through a specific aesthetics of change. Drawing on Barthes's idea of the “shimmer” and Foucault's notion of sex as a mirage, the author shows how sex and gender can appear mirage-like on film, an effect they label shimmering. Steinbock applies the concept of shimmering—which delineates change in its emergent form as well as the qualities of transforming bodies, images, and affects—to analyses of films that span time and genre. These include examinations of the fantastic and phantasmagorical shimmerings of sex change in Georges Méliès's nineteenth-century trick films and Lili Elbe's 1931 autobiographical writings and photomontage in Man into Woman. Steinbock also explores more recent documentaries, science fiction, and pornographic and experimental films. Presenting a cinematic philosophy of transgender embodiment that demonstrates how shimmering images mediate transitioning, Steinbock not only offers a corrective to the gender binary orientation of feminist film theory; they open up new means to understand trans ontologies and epistemologies as emergent, affective, and processual.
Shimmering Images
Rich, funny, and moving personal narratives depend on a few key moments in time to anchor the story and give it impact. Shimmering Images teaches the aspiring memoirist how to locate key memories using Lisa's technique for finding, linking, and fleshing out those vibrant recollections of important moments and situations. Shimmering Images will address: *the difference between memoir and autobiography *how to claim your voice *the art of storytelling *honesty, truth, and compassion in writing *authentic dialogue and the need for specificity Readers will learn how to craft a short piece of narrative nonfiction grounded in their core memories and master a technique they can use over and over again for writing other narratives. A must-have book for anyone who has treasured Bird by Bird by Anne Lamott or Writing Down the Bones by Natalie Goldberg.
The Shimmering
The story follows Barrett, his two best buddies, and his potential girlfriend through their last couple days at school before the summer break. The boys have been very busy building their secret underground fort in the field near Barrett's house while always keeping an eye out for the "teenagers from hell," who would certainly destroy the fort if found. In the days to follow, Barrett finds something in the fort that none of his friends can see. It was meant for his eyes only. Barrett finds out that he has special powers that were previously unknown to him. Reluctant at first, he uses these powers to help a desperate, stranded alien complete his mission to save his dying planet. Unfortunately for Barrett, he finds out that his new alien friend has enemies that make their mission extremely dangerous.