It Came from the Closet (eBook)

Queer Reflections on Horror

Joe Vallese (Herausgeber)

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2022
312 Seiten
The Feminist Press at CUNY (Verlag)
978-1-952177-68-2 (ISBN)

Infos

Through the lens of horrorfrom Halloween to Hereditaryqueer and trans writers consider the films that deepened, amplified, and illuminated their own experiences.Horror movies hold a complicated space in the hearts of the queer community: historically misogynist, and often homo- and transphobic, the genre has also been inadvertently feminist and open to subversive readings. Common tropessuch as the circumspect and resilient final girl, body possession, costumed villains, secret identities, and things that lurk in the closetspark moments of eerie familiarity and affective connection. Still, viewers often remain tasked with reading themselves into beloved films, seeking out characters and set pieces that speak to, mirror, and parallel the unique ways queerness encounters the world.It Came from the Closet features twenty-five essays by writers speaking to this relationship, through connections both empowering and oppressive. From Carmen Maria Machado on Jennifers Body, Jude Ellison S. Doyle on In My Skin, Addie Tsai on Dead Ringers, and many more, these conversations convey the rich reciprocity between queerness and horror.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 4.10.2022
• Co-Autor: Sarah Fonseca, Bruce Owens Grimm, Richard Scott Larson, Zefyr Lisowski, Carmen Maria Machado
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Essays / Feuilleton
• Themenwelt: Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Theater / Ballett
• Schlagworte: Burn It Down • Burn It Down anger • carmen maria machado • Feminist film studies • Her Body and Other Parties • Here There Be Monsters • horror film writing • horror movie tropes • Horse Girls • In the Dream House • Jennifer’s Body • Jude Ellison S. Doyle • LGBTQ anthology • queer anthology • Queer as Camp • queer nonfiction • RuPaul • Sady Doyle • slasher film analysis • transgender nonfiction
• ISBN-10: 1-952177-68-5 / 1952177685
• ISBN-13: 978-1-952177-68-2 / 9781952177682