Queer Horror Film and Television: Sexuality and Masculinity at the Margins

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Darren Elliott-Smith (University of Stirling, UK) Senior Lecturer Angela Smith (University of Sunderland UK)

Queer Horror Film and Television

Sexuality and Masculinity at the Margins

Darren Elliott-Smith (University of Stirling, UK), Senior Lecturer Angela Smith (University of Sunderland UK), Claire Nally (Northumbria University UK)

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English

Bloomsbury Academic
28 July 2022

Films, movies & cinema; Film theory & criticism; Film & movie: styles & genres; Television; Gay studies (Gay men)

Series: Library of Gender and Popular Culture

"In recent years, the representation of alternative sexuality in the horror film and television has ""outed"" itself from the shadows from which it once lurked, via the embrace of an outrageously queer horror aesthetic where homosexuality is often unequivocally referenced.

In this book, Darren Elliott-Smith departs from the analysis of the monster as a symbol of heterosexual anxiety and fear, and moves to focus instead on queer fears and anxieties within gay male subcultures. Furthermore, he examines the works of significant queer horror film, television producers, and directors to reveal gay men's anxieties about: acceptance and assimilation into Western culture, the perpetuation of self-loathing and gay shame, and further anxieties associations shameful femininity. This book focuses mainly on representations of masculinity, and gay male spectatorship in queer horror films and television post-2000. In titling this sub-genre ""queer horror,"" Elliott-Smith designates horror that is crafted by male directors/producers who self-identify as gay, bi, queer, or transgendered and whose work features homoerotic, or explicitly homosexual, narratives with ""out"" gay characters.

In terms of case studies, this book considers a variety of genres and forms from: video art horror; independently distributed exploitation films (A Far Cry from Home, Rowe Kelly, 2012); queer Gothic soap operas (Dante's Cove, 2005-7); satirical horror comedies (such as The Gay Bed and Breakfast of Terror (Thompson, 2008); low-budget slashers (Hellbent, Etheredge-Outzs, 2007); and contemporary representations of gay zombies in film and television from the pornographic LA Zombie (Bruce LaBruce, 2010)) to the melodramatic In the Flesh (BBC Three 2013-15).

Moving from the margins to the mainstream, via the application of psychoanalytic theory, critical and cultural interpretation, interviews with key directors and close readings of classic, cult and modern horror, this book will be invaluable to students and researchers of gender and sexuality in horror film and television."

By: Darren Elliott-Smith (University of Stirling UK)
Edited by: Senior Lecturer Angela Smith (University of Sunderland UK), Claire Nally (Northumbria University UK)
Imprint: Bloomsbury Academic
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 216mm, Width: 138mm,
ISBN: 9781350259089
ISBN 10: 135025908X
Series: Library of Gender and Popular Culture
Pages: 272
Publication Date: 28 July 2022
Audience: College/higher education , General/trade , Primary , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Here, Darren Elliot-Smith examines how alternative sexualities have recently emerged from the shadows in horror films and television programmes, with directors and producers employing an overtly queer horror aesthetic that unequivocally references homosexuality. Elliot-Smith case studies consider many forms of the queer horror genre: independent exploitation films ( A Far Cry from Home ), slashers ( Hellbent ) and even the representation of contemporary gay zombies in LA Zombie . Elliott-Smith deviates from analyzing the monster as a symbol of heterosexual fear and focuses instead on queer anxieties within gay male subcultures. Furthermore, he examines key works to reveal gay men's concerns about their assimilation into Western culture, their continuing association with the feminine, and the perpetuation of gay shame.