Shimmering ImagesIn Shimmering Images Eliza Steinbock traces how cinema offers alternative ways to understand gender transitions through a specific aesthetics of change. Drawing on Barthes's idea of the shimmer and Foucault's notion of sex as a mirage, the author shows how sex and gender can appear mirage like on film, an effect they label shimmering. Steinbock applies the concept of shimmeringwhich delineates change in its emergent form as well as the qualities of