{"product_id":"vantage-points-by-chase-joynt-9781551529578","title":"Vantage Points","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA provocative book by an acclaimed writer-filmmaker that combines memoir and media as seen through a trans lens.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eFollowing the death of the family patriarch, a box of newly procured family documents reveals writer-filmmaker Chase Joynt's previously unknown connection to Canadian media maverick Marshall McLuhan. \u003ci\u003eVantage Points\u003c\/i\u003e takes up the surprising appearance of McLuhan in Joynt's family archive as a way to think about legacies of childhood sexual abuse and how we might process and represent them.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eTo do so, Joynt stages a series of vignettes that place memoir in the context of other sources, media, and stories to create a tapestry—a montage-like experience of reading with surprising and revealing juxtapositions.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eJoynt writes about difficult pasts and connects them to contemporary politics and ways of being, employing McLuhan's seminal \u003ci\u003eUnderstanding Media\u003c\/i\u003e as an inciting framework. \u003ci\u003eVantage Points\u003c\/i\u003e is a kaleidoscopic reckoning with the impact of media and masculinity on the stories we tell about ourselves and our families, offering a unique and highly visual approach to trans life writing, and an experimental move between gender and genre.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Hachette Aotearoa New Zealand","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46846965678316,"sku":"9781551529578","price":34.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/11031183482740.jpg?v=1758929680","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.pro\/products\/vantage-points-by-chase-joynt-9781551529578","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}