New Queer Horror Film and Television

J. Browning, D. Elliot-Smith

Description

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 (2013–15), or American Horror Story: Coven (2013–14), 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.

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 Doppelgängers in Jack and Diane and The Nature of Nicholas – Fernando Gabriel Pagnoni Berns and Mariana Zárate
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

Sujets

• Horror
• Fiction

Informations

• Publié par: University of Wales Press
• Date de parution: 01 octobre 2020
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781786836274
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 14 Mo

Extrait

New QueerHorror FILM AND TELEVISION

HORROR STUDIES

Series Editor Xavier Aldana Reyes, Mancester Metropolitan University

Editorial Board Stacey Abbott, Roeampton University Linnie Blake, Mancester Metropolitan University Harry M. Bensoff, University of Nort Texas Fred Botting, Kingston University Steven Brum, Western University Steffen Hantke, Sogang University Joan Hawkins, Indiana University Agnieszka Soltysik Monnet, University of Lausanne Bernice M. Murpy, Trinity College Dublin Jonny Walker, Nortumbria University

Preace Horror Studies is te first book series exclusively dedicated to te study of te genre in its various manifestations – from fiction to cinema and televi- sion, magazines to comics, and extending to oter forms of narrative texts suc as video games and music. Horror Studies aims to raise te profile of Horror and to furter its academic institutionalisation by providing a publising ome for cutting-edge researc. As an exciting new venture witin te establised Cultural Studies and Literary Criticism programme, Horror Studies will expand te field in innovative and student-friendly ways.

New QueerHorror FILM AND TELEVISION

EDITED BY DARREN ELLIOTTSMITH AND JOHN EDGAR BROWNING

UNIVERSITY OF WALES PRESS 2020

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List of Illustrations

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‘A Dream Witin a Dream’:Cildren’s ‘Horror’ Television and Lesbianism in te World of Marceline te Vampire Queen Simon Bacon Abjection, Queer Bodies and Grotesque Doppelgängers inJack and Dianeandhe Nature of Nicolas Fernando Gabriel Pagnoni Berns and Mariana Zárate At te Edges of (Queer) Time and Space:Atemporality, Adolescence and Abjection inFinal Destination Cristoper W. Clark

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12. ‘Sisters United’:Feminist Nostalgia, Queer Spectatorsip and te Radical Witc Politics of Rob Zombie’she Lords of Salem Ben Rapael Ser

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List of Illustrations

Figure 1. he Creeper at is craft inJeepers Creepers(2001) (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer). Figure 2. Buffalo Bill at is craft inhe Silence of te Lambs (1991) (Orion Pictures Corp.). Figure 3. Tim Curry (left, 1975) and Laverne Cox (rigt, 2016) as Dr Frank-N-Furter. Figure 4. Queer empaty inLet te Rigt One In(2008). Figure 5. Eli’s scar inLet te Rigt One In(2008). Figure 6. he Stagibal, ‘At te base of every identification lies a murderous wis . . .’ Figure 7. he desire of man is te desire of te Oter (Season 2, Episode 10). Figure 8. Princess Bubblegum caresses Marceline before se undergoes te ‘procedure’. ‘Marceline te Vampire Queen’, Stakes, Part 1. Figure 9. Diane’s doppelgänger inJack and Diane(2012). Figure 10. Derek Hale inTeen Wolf– Season 2, Episode 10, ‘Fury’ (2012).

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Notes on Contributors

Simon Baconis an Independent Scolar based in Poznan, Poland. He as edited books on various subjects includingUndead Memory: Vampires and Human Memory in Popular Culture (2014) andGrowing Up wit Vampires: Essays on te Undead in Cildren’s Mediabot wit (2018), Katarzyna Bronk, and editedGotic: A Reader(2018) andHorror: A Companion(2019). He as publised two monograps,Becoming Vampire: Difference and te Vampire in Popular Culture(2016) andDracula as Absolute Oter: he Troubling and Distracting Specter of Stoker’s Vampire on Screen(2019), and is tird,Eco-Vampires: he Undead and te Envi- ronment, as just been released.

Fernando Gabriel Pagnoni Bernsis a Professor at te Universidad de Buenos Aires (UBA) – Facultad de Filosofía y Letras(Argentina). He teaces courses on international orror film. He is director of te researc group on orror cinema ‘Grite’ and as publised capters in te books Divine Horror, edited by Cyntia Miller,To See te Saw Movies: Essays on Torture Porn and Post 9/11 Horror, edited by Jon Wallis,Critical Insigts: Alfred Hitccock, edited by Douglas Cunningam,Gender and Environ- ment in Science Fiction, edited by Cristy Tidwell andhe Films of Delmer Daves, edited by Mattew Carter, among oters. He is currently writing a book about Spanis orror TV seriesHistorias para no Dormir.