變性者電影的誕生：《男變女》變性敘事的文本分析

The Birth of Transsexual Film: A Textual Analysis of Transsexual Narratives in The Christine Jorgensen Story

趙庭輝(Ting-Huei Chao)

《藝術學報》 105期 (2019/12) Pp. 27-46

摘要

《男變女》是電影史上第一部變性者電影，根據美國第一個男變女變性者Christine Jorgensen真人真事拍攝完成。本文以變性敘事理論概念與變性者說故事方式訪談研究作為理論基礎，透過文本分析方法解讀與詮釋這部變性者電影如何編織完整主題的文本肌理，並發展出本身的變性敘事。研究結果顯示，《男變女》整個敘事形式是從Christine最早期對於自己的生理性別與其他人不同的感覺記憶開始，藉由生命事件描繪她完成變性軌跡的過程，同時以這些基礎理解男變女變性者推展故事情節。本文發現《男變女》建立16個主題，為男變女變性者的銀幕書寫提供重要的參考架構。

關鍵字

變性者電影 ； 《男變女》 ； 變性敘事 ； 本文分析

並列摘要

The Christine Jorgensen Story was the first transsexual film in film history, according to the true story of the first male-to-female transsexual Christine Jorgensen in the US. Based on the theoretical bases both the concept of transsexual narratives and the research of in-depth interview of transsexuals' story-telling, this article reads and interprets the film through textual analysis. It tries to uncover how this transsexual film weaves the complete themes into texts and develops transsexual narratives for itself. The result reveals that the whole narrative form of The Christine Jorgensen Story starts from the very beginning of Christine's memories, which she felts her biological sex different from others. This transsexual film illustrates the process of Christine's accomplishing transsexual trajectory with her life events, in the meantime, these life events become the bases for understanding male-to-female transsexual and developing the main plots. This article finds out, The Christine Jorgensen Story builds up 16 themes, and these themes offer the most important referential structure for screen writing of male-to-female transsexual.

並列關鍵字

transsexual film ； the christine jorgensen story ； transsexual narratives ； textual analysis

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