New queer horror film and television /edited by Darren Elliott-Smith and John Edgar Browning.

New queer horror film and television /edited by Darren Elliott-Smith and John Edgar Browning. - Cardiff : University of Wales Press, (c)2020. - 1 online resource (xii, 241 pages) : illustrations - Horror studies .

Includes bibliographies and index.

Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Notes on Contributors -- Introduction -- Part One: Transforming, Re-Reading and Re-Making Queer Horror -- 1 'My Brother's Creeper' -- 2 Queer Cult Performance -- 3 Castrating the Queer Vampire -- 4 'Becoming Hannibal' -- Part Two: Queer Playgrounds and Adolescent Horrors -- 5 'What Happened to My Sweet Girl?' -- 6 'A Dream Within a Dream' -- 7 Abjection, Queer Bodies and Grotesque Doppelgängers -- 8 At the Edges of (Queer) Time and Space -- Part Three: Badass Witches and Queer Wolves 9 'If You Look in the Face of Evil, Evil's Gonna Look Right Back at You' -- 10 Like and Lycanthropy -- 11 'Unspeakable Acts' -- 12 'Sisters United' -- Select Bibliography -- Index -- Back Cover

This anthology of essays studies the form, aesthetics and representations of LGBTQ+ identities in a new subgenre of film and television we call 'New Queer Horror'. This anthology of essays studies the form, aesthetics and representations of LGBTQ+ identities in a new subgenre of film and television we call 'New Queer Horror'.



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Horror films--History and criticism.
Gays in motion pictures.
Queer theory.


Electronic Books.

PN1995 / .N497 2020