By Robert Kalish and Leora Manischewitz, 2019
Book review: Transgender Cinema, by Rebecca Bell-Metereau is a volume in the Quick Takes: Movies and Popular Culture series. A media studies professor at Texas State University, Dr. Bell-Metereau has attempted to provide a critical overview of the portraits of transgender people in (mainly American) films, ranging from the early days of silent cinema to the present. The survey is largely chronological.