I think identifying the limitations and flaws in my research is extremely important. Unfortunately, I did not get a chance to thoroughly study and analyze every topic I wanted to research, but I have developed a good basis for future research. Particularly, I would like to focus more on the frequent use of fat suits in these crossdressing roles, particularly when men are portraying female identities.
Additionally, and most importantly, I want to address that by comparing cases of male-identifying characters crossdressing as women and female-identifying characters crossdressing as men, I unintentionally may have reinforced a gender binary, which was very counterintuitive to my intentions and the work in our Trans Studies & The Politics of Visibility course. I hope that in highlighting what is most predominately visible in the media, I am also bringing attention to what is not visible and why.
One way to improve my limited scope upon further research is through a comparative study looking at cases not just in comedy films, but other genres. Cases of crossdressing where the gender identity of the characters or actors are more fluid and less normative, such as Hedwig and the Angry Inch.
This being said, I am happy that I picked a narrow topic focused specifically at comedy films, because there was a lot of literature around that correlation between humor, deception, and transgender identities that I was able to fully invest myself in.
Cross Dressing in Comedy 