Regressing, Progressing, or Transgressing on the Small Screen? Transgender Characters on U.S. Scripted Television Series

Capuzza, Jamie C.; Spencer, Leland G.

doi:10.1080/01463373.2016.1221438

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“…Finally, this study adds to a nascent, but rapidly expanding literature on contemporary media representations of transgender people (Billard, 2016(Billard, , 2017(Billard, , 2019b(Billard, , 2019cCapuzza & Spencer, 2017) and their effects on public attitudes (Billard, 2019a;Gillig et al, 2017).…”

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Experimental Evidence for Differences in the Prosocial Effects of Binge-Watched Versus Appointment-Viewed Television Programs

Billard

2019

Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly

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This study investigated the influence of television consumption patterns on changes in attitudes toward depicted social out-groups. Participants were randomly assigned to view six episodes of Amazon’s Transparent, a comedy-drama program about a family whose father comes out as a transgender woman, in either one 3-hr (“binge-watching”) session or six weekly half-hour (“appointment-viewing”) sessions. Across both groups, we found exposure to the narrative reduced anti-transgender prejudice. Counter to the predictions of the extended elaboration likelihood model and the entertainment overcoming resistance model, however, improvement in prejudice toward transgender people was not predicted by narrative or character involvement. Rather, reduction in prejudice was an outcome of viewing condition, such that those who viewed the program on a schedule of one episode per week exhibited lower levels of postexposure prejudice than those who binge-watched, and their attitudinal changes were more persistent 3 weeks later. Results are discussed in the context of the original elaboration likelihood model, proposing mechanisms for further testing.

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Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 85%

Experimental Evidence for Differences in the Prosocial Effects of Binge-Watched Versus Appointment-Viewed Television Programs

Billard

2019

Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly

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“…They are responsible, in part, for the construction and reinforcement of existing social definitions of gender, including the visual and discursive erasure of expressions of identity that fall outside the heteronormative. By contrast, they can also play a crucial role in successful challenges to such norms (Capuzza and Spencer, 2017). The media and those with the cultural and financial capital to engage with them are among the most influential of the ‘institutions of culture-change’ (Warner, 1993).…”

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Redressing the balance: Lived experiences of the harms of visually mediated transgender identity

McBride

2019

International Review of Victimology

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Trans* identities have a history of being constructed, regulated and erased. Often a trans* individual’s social status is judged by others on the basis of their perception of that individual’s achievement of normative standards of gender. We are living through a time characterized by the prioritization of visual identity alongside intense scrutiny of trans* identities in relation to their authenticity and right to recognition. Research should support a reorientation of scrutiny towards these issues and acknowledge their relevance to lived experiences of the hegemonic discourse related to conceptualizations of gender as binary that engulf trans* individuals' lives. This paper is informed by empirical research undertaken at the University of Plymouth and in particular reflections on trans* individuals’ lived experiences of social harms. It contributes to victimology by presenting a discussion of cultural (re)presentations of the self and processes of othering in relation to trans* individuals. The adoption of participatory visual-narrative methods as a route through which to challenge these harmful discourses is proposed. Such methods can refocus our gaze away from trans* individuals as problematizing the world for others, and on to the lived experiences of the structures and processes that foster stigmatization and marginalization.

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“…5 Following the broader trends of the so-called New Queer Cinema of the 1990s on the big screen, on TV, the new millennium initially presented viewers with a range of large-ensemble "queer" shows like Queer as Folk (UK 1999-2000, USA 2000 and The L Word (2004)(2005)(2006)(2007)(2008)(2009) in which trans characters were often only very marginally present. In the turn to the 2010s then there is a significant change of increased trans presence on TV, which Capuzza and Spencer (2017) have documented in a qualitative content analysis of the 2008 to 2014 season focusing on casting, visibility, identity, embodiment, and social interaction, and, feeding into this trend, The L Word, for example, has just been relaunched as Generation Q featuring a greater visibility of trans masculinities. Hence, despite the ongoing precarious status of trans lives, there seems to be a proliferation of more, and more importantly, more complex, trans representations, both in narrative cinema and on TV.…”

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Representing trans: visibility and its discontents

Koch-Rein

Yekani

Verlinden

2020

European Journal of English Studies

137

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In this introduction to the special issue Representing Trans, the authors reflect on the radical changes in trans representation between the early 1990s and the present. Through brief reflections on Pose (2018-) and other landmark examples of trans representation in film and television, the authors show how these changes attest to complex interrelations between visibility, recognition, and violence. Beyond the realm of film and television, the introduction also discusses broader media representations that connect the question of visibility to political debates and the regulation of public spaces. Highlighting a variety of trans theorical engagements with different forms of mediality (including literature), the authors propose a more expansive understanding of trans as a reading practice as well as a method of analysing and transing medial forms.

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Regressing, Progressing, or Transgressing on the Small Screen? Transgender Characters on U.S. Scripted Television Series

Cited by 61 publications

References 25 publications

Experimental Evidence for Differences in the Prosocial Effects of Binge-Watched Versus Appointment-Viewed Television Programs

Experimental Evidence for Differences in the Prosocial Effects of Binge-Watched Versus Appointment-Viewed Television Programs

Redressing the balance: Lived experiences of the harms of visually mediated transgender identity

Representing trans: visibility and its discontents

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