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Author:   Temmuz Süreyya Gürbüz
Publisher:   Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Imprint:   Bloomsbury Academic
Dimensions:   Width: 14.40cm , Height: 2.00cm , Length: 22.00cm
Weight:   0.500kg
ISBN:  

9781350245709

ISBN 10:   1350245704
Pages:   232
Publication Date:   19 February 2026
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Introduction to the Traces of Film in Butler’s Work: Cinema’s Formative Functions 1. Where is Gender? A Retrospective on Butler’s Theoretical Progression in Filmic Reflection - Gender Trouble: Residues of Hollywood and Female Trouble - Bodies That Matter: The Materiality of Film/Body and Paris is Burning - Undoing Gender: The Problem of (Un)Recognition and Boys Don’t Cry 2. Where is Transgender? A Critical Exploration of Butler’s Positioning - The Immediacy of Embodied Experience on Screen - Identification and Cinematic Empiricism - Camera as an Assignment Instrument - Camera as a Desire Machine 3. Butler on (Normative) Screen: Swapping Subjectivation - Documentation as a Form of Subject-Construction - Philosophical Encounters of the Third Kind - Examined Life - Constructive Screen 4. How Can a Body Figure on Screen’s Surface? - The Experimental and the Symbolic - Trans Cinema - Camp and Trash Aesthetics

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A meticulous, generous and detailed assessment of Butler’s writing on film, which is ultimately something else as well: a profoundly political call for the exposure, re-evaluation and reworking of the conditions under which not only films, but their academic critical assessment, are made. * Joanna Walsh, Author of 'Hotel' (2017), 'Break.up' (2018), and 'Amateurs!' (2025) * This fiercely argued account of Butlerian spectatorship examines Butler’s career-long rapport with the ethico-aesthetic field of subjectivity and embodiment. Avoiding a catch-all framework, Gürbüz carefully studies Butler’s references to specific films, to re-discover how cinema contributed to their “egalitarian imaginary”. * Cüneyt Çakirlar is Associate Professor of Film and Visual Culture at Nottingham Trent University, UK, and the Turkish co-translator of 'Judith Butler’s Bodies That Matter' (1993), published as 'Bela Bedenler' (2014). *

Author Information

Temmuz Süreyya Gürbüz is a filmmaker and visual media scholar, serving as an adjunct lecturer at several institutions in Ireland, including University College Dublin, the Institute of Art, Design + Technology, and Technological University Dublin. Their work on feminist film theory, global media, subcultures, and experimental cinema has been published in journals such as Jump Cut, Cultural Studies, and the Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television, among others. This monograph was produced during their Irish Research Council Postdoctoral Fellowship and supported by the Arts Council of Ireland’s Agility Award for creative development.

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