Queer for Fear : Horror Film and the Queer Spectator Hardback
by Heather O. Petrocelli
Part of the Horror Studies series
Hardback
Description
Queer for Fear analyses the relationship queer people have to horror film, building upon decades of theory that previously emphasised horror’s queerness as being subtextual, allegorical and figurative.
This groundbreaking interdisciplinary empirical study of the LGBTQ+ community not only offers the first inclusive understanding of the horror-loving queer spectator’s opinions, habits and tastes, but also evidences how and why queers have a distinctive relationship to horror.
Leveraging original survey data, in-depth oral histories and theory, Petrocelli evidences that queer people have ontological connections to the horror genre, and concludes that horror is queer to the queer spectator.
This study also establishes that queer spectators actively engage with horror to work through their trauma, knowingly have a camp relationship to horror, and joyously commune through horror screenings featuring drag performance.
Queer for Fear is an overdue contribution to the fields of queer, film, horror, trauma, camp and live cinema studies.
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- Format:Hardback
- Pages:288 pages, No
- Publisher:University of Wales Press
- Publication Date:15/09/2023
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- ISBN:9781837720514
Information
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Only a few left - usually despatched within 24 hours
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:288 pages, No
- Publisher:University of Wales Press
- Publication Date:15/09/2023
- Category:
- ISBN:9781837720514
