'Feeling-Seeing' in Transparent: Using the Mirror to Reflect beyond In/Visibility

This article explores how Jill Soloway uses mirror imagery in the series Transparent to facilitate their version of the female gaze, particularly the tenet of feeling-seeing. By doing so, this article aims to assist ongoing efforts in both transgender studies and media studies research to stretch be...

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Published in:GLQ 2021-04, Vol.27 (2), p.201-231
Main Author: Ripley, AJ
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Audiences
Cisgender
Gender
Imagery
LGBTQ studies
Mass media effects
Mass media images
Transformation
Transgender persons
Visibility
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Summary:This article explores how Jill Soloway uses mirror imagery in the series Transparent to facilitate their version of the female gaze, particularly the tenet of feeling-seeing. By doing so, this article aims to assist ongoing efforts in both transgender studies and media studies research to stretch beyond the in/visibility debate surrounding transgender representation in popular media. It proposes that Soloway’s creative process designates open, imaginative space for audiences (both cisgender and transgender alike) to witness how gender comes to matter for Maura, both in the sense of materializing in bodily form and in a manner of meaning, and how gender also comes to re-matter for her, but perhaps also for audiences watching her transformation.
ISSN:1064-2684
1527-9375
DOI:10.1215/10642684-8871663