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

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Elliott-Smith, Darren, editor.

Browning, John Edgar, editor.

Series:

Horror studies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Horror films--History and criticism.

Horror films.

Gay people in motion pictures.

Queer theory.

Physical Description:

xii, 241 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.

Place of Publication:

Cardiff : University of Wales Press, 2020.

Summary:

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'.

Contents:

Part 1 Transforming, Re-Reading and Re-Making Queer Horror p. 13

1 'My Brother's Creeper': Towards a Queer (Re-)Reading of Victor Salva's Jeepers Creepers (2001) p. 15 / John Edgar Browning

2 Queer Cult Performance: Recreating Rocky Honor in the Twenty-First Century p. 31 / John Lynskey

3 Castrating the Queer Vampire in Let the Right One In (2008) and Let Me In (2010) p. 45 / Darren Elliott-Smith

4 'Becoming Hannibal': Identification and Transformation in Queer Horror Television p. 65 / Ben Tyrer

Part 2 Queer Playgrounds and Adolescent Horrors p. 87

5 'What Happened to My Sweet Girl?': Paranoid and Reparative Readings of Queer Subjectivity in Black Swan (2010) and Jack and Diane (2012) p. 89 / Robyn Ollett

6 'A Dream Within a Dream': Children's 'Horror' Television and Lesbianism in the World of Marceline the Vampire Queen p. 105 / Simon Bacon

7 Abjection, Queer Bodies and Grotesque Doppelgängers in Jack and Diane and Vie Nature of Nicholas p. 121 / Fernando Gabriel Pagnoni Berns and Mariana Zárate

8 At the Edges of (Queer) Time and Space: Atemporality, Adolescence and Abjection in Final Destination p. 137 / Christopher W. Clark

Part 3 Badass Witches and Queer Wolves p. 153

9 'If You Look in the Face of Evil, Evil's Gonna Look Right Back at You': Anthologising Supernatural Sexualities on American Horror Story: Coven p. 155 / Andrew J. Owens

10 Like and Lycanthropy: The New Pack Werewolf According to Tyler, Tyier and Taylor p. 169 / Tim Stafford

11 'Unspeakable Acts': Coming Out as Werewolf p. 189 / Lisa Metherell

12 'Sisters United': Feminist Nostalgia, Queer Spectatorship and the Radical Witch Politics of Rob Zombie's The Lords of Salem p. 205 / Ben Raphael Sher.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 225-232) and index.

ISBN:

9781786836267

1786836262

OCLC:

1140779911