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 comprises essays that study the form, aesthetics and representations of LGBTQ+ identities in an emerging sub-genre of film and television termed New Queer Horror. This sub-genre designates horror crafted by directors/producers who identify as gay, bi, queer or transgendered, or works like Jeepers Creepers (2001), Let the Right One In (2008), Hannibal (201315), or American Horror Story: Coven (201314), which feature homoerotic or explicitly homosexual narratives with out LGBTQ+ characters. Unlike other studies, this anthology argues that New Queer Horror projects contemporary anxieties within LGBTQ+ subcultures onto its characters and into its narratives, building upon the previously figurative role of Queer monstrosity in the moving image. New Queer Horror thus highlights the limits of a metaphorical understanding of queerness in the horror film, in an age where its presence has become unambiguous. Ultimately, this anthology aims to show that in recent years New Queer Horror has turned the focus of fear on itself, on its own communities and subcultures.
Papildus informācija
This book offers a wide scope in terms of how LGBTQ+ spectators engage and use horror texts to identify. It includes close textual analysis in terms of the eclectic mix of Film and TV titles. It offers contemporary readings of significant titles from the past two decades or so.
List of Illustrations
Author Biographies
Introduction
Part 1: TRANSFORMING, RE-READING AND RE-MAKING QUEER HORROR
1: My Brothers Creeper: Towards a Queer (Re-)Reading of Victor Salvas
Jeepers Creepers (2001) John Edgar Browning
2: Queer Cult Performance: Recreating Rocky Horror in the Twenty-First
Century John Lynskey
3: Castrating the Queer Vampire in Let the Right One In (2009) and Let Me In
(2010) Darren Elliott-Smith
4: Becoming Hannibal: Identification and Transformation in Queer Horror
Television Ben Tyrer
Part 2: QUEER PLAYGROUNDS AND ADOLESCENT HORRORS
5: What happened to my sweet girl?: Paranoid and Reparative readings of
Queer Subjectivity in Black Swan (2010) and Jack and Diane (2012) Robyn
Ollett
6: A Dream Within a Dream: Childrens Horror Television and Lesbianism in
the World of Marceline the Vampire Queen Simon Bacon
7: Abjection, Queer Bodies and Grotesque Doppelgängers in Jack and Diane and
The Nature of Nicholas Fernando Gabriel Pagnoni Berns and Mariana Zįrate
8: At the Edges of (queer) Time and Space: Atemporality, Adolescence, and
Abjection in Final Destination Christopher Clark
Part 3: BADASS WITCHES AND QUEER WOLVES
9: If you look in the face of evil, evils gonna look right back at you:
Anthologising Supernatural Sexualities on American Horror Story: Coven
Andrew J. Owens.
10: Like and Lycanthropy: The New Pack Werewolf According to Tyler, Tyler and
Taylor Tim Stafford
11: Unspeakable Acts: Coming Out as Werewolf Lisa Metherell.
12: Sisters United: Feminist Nostalgia, Queer Spectatorship, and the
Radical Witch Politics of Rob Zombies The Lords of Salem Ben Raphael
Sher
Selected Bibliography
John Edgar Browning, Professor of Liberal Arts, Savannah College of Art and Design (SCAD). Darren Elliott-Smith is Senior Lecturer in Film and Gender at the University of Stirling, Scotland, and is known online as www.queerhorrordoctor.com .
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