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Author:   Darren Elliott-Smith ,  John Edgar Browning
Publisher:   University of Wales Press
Imprint:   University of Wales Press
ISBN:  

9781786836267

ISBN 10:   1786836262
Pages:   256
Publication Date:   15 October 2020
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

List of Illustrations Author Biographies Introduction Part 1: TRANSFORMING, RE-READING AND RE-MAKING QUEER HORROR 1: 'My Brother's Creeper': Towards a Queer (Re-)Reading of Victor Salva's 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': Children's 'Horror' Television and Lesbianism in the World of Marceline the Vampire Queen - Simon Bacon 7: Abjection, Queer Bodies and Grotesque Doppelgangers in Jack and Diane and The Nature of Nicholas - Fernando Gabriel Pagnoni Berns and Mariana Zarate 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, evil's 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 Zombie's The Lords of Salem - Ben Raphael Sher Selected Bibliography

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This new collection of essays contributes to the ever-expanding field of queer horror scholarship. Vampires, witches, werewolves, serial killers, and more are examined within this relatively 'out' era of LGBTQ+ representation, once again demonstrating how this protean genre continues to speak in fascinating ways to issues of gender and sexuality. -- Harry M. Benshoff, University of North Texas As everyday life begins to resemble a horror movie for more and more people, so horror genres have had to shift and change to keep pace with the grotesqueries of the quotidian. In this exciting new volume edited and curated in imaginative ways, queer horror takes center stage. While LGBTQ+ people have long played the monster in the horror genre, we can now look at horror from the perspective of those relegated to the monstrous margins. Ranging between new queer readings of old texts and analyses of aesthetic ruptures, this anthology can claim to offer a definitive look at a genre that has neatly taken aim at normal life. -- Jack Halberstam, Columbia University

As everyday life begins to resemble a horror movie for more and more people, so horror genres have had to shift and change to keep pace with the grotesqueries of the quotidian. In this exciting new volume edited and curated in imaginative ways, queer horror takes center stage. While LGBTQ+ people have long played the monster in the horror genre, we can now look at horror from the perspective of those relegated to the monstrous margins. Ranging between new queer readings of old texts and analyses of aesthetic ruptures, this anthology can claim to offer a definitive look at a genre that has neatly taken aim at normal life. --Jack Halberstam, Columbia University This new collection of essays contributes to the ever-expanding field of queer horror scholarship. Vampires, witches, werewolves, serial killers, and more are examined within this relatively 'out' era of LGBTQ+ representation, once again demonstrating how this protean genre continues to speak in fascinating ways to issues of gender and sexuality. --Harry M. Benshoff, University of North Texas

Author Information

Darren Elliott-Smith is senior lecturer in film and gender studies at the University of Stirling. John Edgar Browning is professor of liberal arts at the Savannah College of Art and Design.

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