Book description
Through the lens of horrorâfrom Halloween to Hereditaryâqueer and trans writers consider the films that deepened, amplified, and illuminated their own experiences.
Horror movies hold a complicated space in the hearts of the queer community: historically misogynist, and often homo- and transphobic, the genre has also been inadvertently feminist andâŠ
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As someone who wrote a queer spin-off of Frankenstein, it's obvious that I love monstersâparticularly how the horrific and the monstrous in fiction have long been used as metaphors for queer expression, for better or for worse.Â
It Came from the Closet: Queer Reflections on Horror is a collection of twenty-five essays by queer authors examining their (often complicated!) relationships to influential horror films. I particularly enjoyed Carmen Maria Machado's piece on the camp cult classic Jennifer's Body, Viet Dinh's on the notorious Sleepaway Camp, and Zeyfr Lisowski's on the ableism of The Ring âŠ
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