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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Why read it?
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.Ā
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.Ā 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 TheĀ Ring ā¦
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