Introduction : Introduction ; Background to the Trans New Wave emerging ; The relationship of the Trans New Wave to earlier cinematic waves ; Historical overview of key films pre-2008 with transsexual and transgender characters, themes and narratives ; Characteristics of the Trans New Wave ; Representational work of trans woman actors in independent films and streaming video ; Overview of methodologies and the interdisciplinary approach ; Thinking across boundaries
Transliteracy : Foundations of Transliteracy ; Understanding the cultural contexts for independent trans cinema ; Transliteracy and textual exegesis ; Epistemological cinema ; Ontological cinema
Key Texts of the Trans New Wave : Overview ; Fictional, narrative short, animation, drama ; Factual, documentary films, docu-drama ; Uplifting lives: Black Trans Lives Matter ; Use of life cycle narratives as a representational structure for documentary: three representations of transmasculinity (selected case study text Trans Boys) ; Experimental & performance art films ; Music on screen ; Use of genres: road trip, science fiction, horror (selected case study text The Thing) ; The 'real' and 'reality' ; Use of the road movie genre as a representational metaphor for transitioning ; Recurrent themes & tropes
First Nations and Indigenous Trans Cinema : First Nations and Indigenous trans cinema ; Transliterate approaches to reading films from non-western and First Nations filmmakers ; Two Spirit and Third Gender cinema
Gender-Diverse Youth Narratives : The significance of the emerging body of cinematic narratives focuses upon transgender youth ; Screen families Tomgirl (Jeremy Asher Lynch, USA, 2015) and Raising Ryland (Sarah Feeley, USA, 2015) ; Temporal considerations ; The role of education
Cinematic Ethnogenesis : Birth of a new cinema ; Countercultures: screening independent trans cinema ; Overview of key international independent queer and transgender film festivals ; The reciprocal interaction of audiences and texts ; How classifications (ratings) systems may impact independent filmmakers and film festivals: overview of differences between the Australian, United Kingdom and American Systems ; Non-hegemonic cinema
whose community decides who sees the film? ; Trans new wave as reparative cinema
Cinematic Futures : Developing a canon of representation of gender diversity and sexualities ; Sexing the Transman (Buck Angel, USAm 2011) ; Trans Boys (Ali Russell and Monique Schafter, Aus., 2012): Dex's story ; Community Action Centre (A. K. Burns, A. L. Steiner, USA, 2010) ; Cinema on demand ; The democratisation of distribution.