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ISBN | 9781350259089 |
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Autor | Elliott-Smith Darren |
Vydavatel | Bloomsbury 3Pl |
Jazyk | english |
Väzba | Paperback |
Rok vydania | 2022 |
Počet strán | 272 |
In recent years, the representation of alternative sexuality in the horror film and television has outed itself from the shadows from which it once lurked, via the embrace of an outrageously queer horror aesthetic where homosexuality is often unequivocally referenced.
In this book, Darren Elliott-Smith departs from the analysis of the monster as a symbol of heterosexual anxiety and fear, and moves to focus instead on queer fears and anxieties within gay male subcultures. Furthermore, he examines the works of significant queer horror film, television producers, and directors to reveal gay men's anxieties about: acceptance and assimilation into Western culture, the perpetuation of self-loathing and gay shame, and further anxieties associations shameful femininity. This book focuses mainly on representations of masculinity, and gay male spectatorship in queer horror films and television post-2000. In titling this sub-genre queer horror, Elliott-Smith designates horror that is crafted by male directors/producers who self-identify as gay, bi, queer, or transgendered and whose work features homoerotic, or explicitly homosexual, narratives with out gay characters. In terms of case studies, this book considers a variety of genres and forms from: video art horror