Establishing Thoughts – Conferences
ESTABLISHING THOUGHTS, 7th November, 7pm, M20 (Academy) (1) Anthony Clair Wagner “(Un)Be(Com)ing Others: A Trans* Film Criticism of the Alien Quadrilogy Movies“ Anthony Clair Wagner is a Doctoral Student (Dr. phil.) at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna (Un)Be(Com)ing Others: A Trans* Film Criticism of the Alien Quadrilogy Movies combines transgender and monster studies to bring, what I call, trans* film criticism to mainstream film.[1] Trans* criticism is concerned with issues of embodiment, transgression, and transformation. In order to identify the range of dehumanized and thereby monsterized bodies in film,…