Queer Horror Film and Television : Sexuality and Masculinity at the Margins
- Submitting institution
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University of Hertfordshire
- Unit of assessment
- 27 - English Language and Literature
- Output identifier
- 22569926
- Type
- A - Authored book
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- Publisher
- I. B. Tauris
- ISBN
- 9781784536862
- Open access status
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- Month of publication
- September
- Year of publication
- 2016
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
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- Number of additional authors
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0
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- Proposed double-weighted
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- Double-weighted statement
- This 272-page monograph examines the ways in which homosexual and gay identity are navigated in horror films, revealing the inadequacy (and attendant dangers) of using metaphors that might be associated with homosexuality. It departs from the analysis of the monster as a symbol of heterosexual anxiety, focusing instead on queer fears within gay male subcultures. Moving from the margins to the mainstream, via the application of psychoanalytic theory, critical and cultural interpretation, interviews with directors and readings of classic, cult and modern horror, the book breaks new ground in the study of gender and sexuality in horror film and television.
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- Author contribution statement
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- Non-English
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- English abstract
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