Trans-Screens of Gender and Jewishness in Jill Soloway's Transparent: Post-Network TV and the Screendance Scene

This essay analyzes the artful insertion of screendance scenes in Season Two of Jill Soloway’s Amazon hit, Transparent (2014- ), highlighting how bodies and camera choreograph affective connections core to the plot in this televisual portrait of a Jewish American family. In doing so, I underscore a...

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Main Author: Hannah Schwadron
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: The Ohio State University Libraries 2019-05-01
Series:The International Journal of Screendance
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Online Access:http://screendancejournal.org/article/view/6522
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description This essay analyzes the artful insertion of screendance scenes in Season Two of Jill Soloway’s Amazon hit, Transparent (2014- ), highlighting how bodies and camera choreograph affective connections core to the plot in this televisual portrait of a Jewish American family. In doing so, I underscore a layered screenic trans-ness that conjoins circular manipulations of time and bodily action to overlay transgender and transhistorical experiences as co-constitutive themes.
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spellingShingle Hannah Schwadron
Trans-Screens of Gender and Jewishness in Jill Soloway's Transparent: Post-Network TV and the Screendance Scene
The International Journal of Screendance
Trans-Screens
Transgenerational
Transhistorical
Gender
American Jewishness
Post-Network TV
title Trans-Screens of Gender and Jewishness in Jill Soloway's Transparent: Post-Network TV and the Screendance Scene
title_full Trans-Screens of Gender and Jewishness in Jill Soloway's Transparent: Post-Network TV and the Screendance Scene
title_fullStr Trans-Screens of Gender and Jewishness in Jill Soloway's Transparent: Post-Network TV and the Screendance Scene
title_full_unstemmed Trans-Screens of Gender and Jewishness in Jill Soloway's Transparent: Post-Network TV and the Screendance Scene
title_short Trans-Screens of Gender and Jewishness in Jill Soloway's Transparent: Post-Network TV and the Screendance Scene
title_sort trans screens of gender and jewishness in jill soloway s transparent post network tv and the screendance scene
topic Trans-Screens
Transgenerational
Transhistorical
Gender
American Jewishness
Post-Network TV
url http://screendancejournal.org/article/view/6522
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