Book description
Through the lens of horrorāfrom Halloween to Hereditaryāqueer 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 andā¦
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1 author picked It Came from the Closet as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
As someone who wrote a queer spin-off of Frankenstein, it's obvious that I love monstersāparticularly how the horrific and the monstrous in fiction have long been used as metaphors for queer expression, for better or for worse.
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 and Pet Semataryā¦
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