Joshua Bastian Cole
Biographic Data
| ID | 6557363 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Joshua Bastian Cole |
| GIVEN NAMES | Joshua Bastian |
| FAMILY NAME | Cole |
| SIGNATURE | COLE J B |
| AFFILIATIONS | Cornell University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 3 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 3 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1994 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Changing the reflection
The mirror scene that produces an eerily mismatched reflection is a staple of both trans and speculative films. Jay Prosser and Jack Halberstam have examined this trope, the latter asserting trans mirror scenes allow a disruptive ‘trans look’ for a non-trans audience. This essay takes up the trans gaze, but the process reverses. Rather, non-trans characters can become readably trans by way of a new trans look, one that takes account of asymmetric…
Passing Glances
In a quick but disorienting visual exchange at the end of David Lynch's Mulholland Drive (2001), two unacquainted characters, Dan and Diane, encounter each other at a diner called Winkie's. The film's queer temporal and spatial logics invite these two to recognize each other – a shared recognition into which I am also drawn. Already a part of the queer film canon because a lesbian relationship drives Mulholland's plot, my trans reading adds a new…
The chaos of particular facts
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The chaos of particular facts
Passing Glances
In a quick but disorienting visual exchange at the end of David Lynch's Mulholland Drive (2001), two unacquainted characters, Dan and Diane, encounter each other at a diner called Winkie's. The film's queer temporal and spatial logics invite these two to recognize each other – a shared recognition into which I am also drawn. Already a part of the queer film canon because a lesbian relationship drives Mulholland's plot, my trans reading adds a new…
Changing the reflection
The mirror scene that produces an eerily mismatched reflection is a staple of both trans and speculative films. Jay Prosser and Jack Halberstam have examined this trope, the latter asserting trans mirror scenes allow a disruptive ‘trans look’ for a non-trans audience. This essay takes up the trans gaze, but the process reverses. Rather, non-trans characters can become readably trans by way of a new trans look, one that takes account of asymmetric…
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