Lana and Lilly Wachowski

Cael M. Keegan

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University of Illinois Press
15 November 2018

Film, TV & Radio; Film theory & criticism; Individual film directors, film-makers; Biography: arts & entertainment

Series: Contemporary Film Directors

"Lana and Lilly Wachowski have redefined the technically and topically possible while joyfully defying audience expectations. Visionary films like The Matrix trilogy and Cloud Atlas have made them the world's most influential transgender media producers, and their coming out retroactively put trans
* aesthetics at the very center of popular American culture. Cáel M. Keegan views the Wachowskis' films as an approach to trans
* experience that maps a transgender journey and the promise we might learn ""to sense beyond the limits of the given world."" Keegan reveals how the filmmakers take up the relationship between identity and coding (be it computers or genes), inheritance and belonging, and how transgender becoming connects to a utopian vision of a post-racial order. Along the way, he theorizes a trans
* aesthetic that explores the plasticity of cinema to create new social worlds, new temporalities, and new sensory inputs and outputs. Film comes to disrupt, rearrange, and evolve the cinematic exchange with the senses in the same manner that trans
* disrupts, rearranges, and evolves discrete genders and sexes."

By: Cael M. Keegan
Imprint: University of Illinois Press
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 210mm, Width: 140mm, Spine: 15mm
ISBN: 9780252083839
ISBN 10: 0252083830
Series: Contemporary Film Directors
Pages: 216
Publication Date: 15 November 2018
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Cael M. Keegan is an assistant professor of women, gender, and sexuality studies and liberal studies at Grand Valley State University.

Reviews for Lana and Lilly Wachowski

This captivating book does more than argue persuasively for the centrality of the Wachowski's oeuvre in the recent history of cinema: it demonstrates how their embodied transgender experience is a central component of their aesthetic vision, and how transgender experience has become paradigmatic of visual semiotic practices in the increasingly ubiquitous digital media environment. Keegan offers lucid close readings of the entire Wachowski filmography, while also mapping generative points of overlap and intersection between cinema studies and trans studies. It makes a significant contribution to both fields. --Susan Stryker, founding coeditor, Transgender Studies Quarterly