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In April 2021, Film Comment published a Trans Cinema Roundtable Podcast, in which two trans film critics and two trans filmmakers answered questions submitted by listeners on what constitutes a cinema of transness. Now, two of those panelists\u2014Caden Mark Gardner and Willow Catelyn Maclay\u2014are about to publish a new book on that very subject. Corpses, Fools and Monsters is a thorough inquiry into the history, present, and future of what Caden and Willow call the \u201ctrans film image\u201d\u2014not a fully developed cinema, yet, but gestures, glimpses, and traces that have been visible in film from its earliest days and have now gained a renewed creative force.\n\nOn today\u2019s episode, Caden and Willow join Film Comment Editor Devika Girish to talk about the extensive research they understood for the book, why representation can be a complex term for trans cinephiles, and films from reappraised classics like Jonathan Demme\u2019s The Silence of the Lambs (1991) and Toshio Matsumoto's\xa0Funeral Parade of Roses (1969) to new works by trans filmmakers, including Vera Drew\u2019s The People\u2019s Joker and Jane Schoenbrun\u2019s I Saw the TV Glow.