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Desire After Dark: Contemporary Queer Cultures and Occultly Marvelous Media

Desire After Dark: Contemporary Queer Cultures and Occultly Marvelous Media

Owens, Andrew J.

Hardcover

Film StudiesGeneral Gender StudiesGeneral Sociology

ISBN10: 0253053803
ISBN13: 9780253053800
Publisher: Indiana University Press (Ips)
Published: Mar 1 2021
Pages: 220
Weight: 1.09
Height: 0.63 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

Since the 1960s, the occult in film and television has responded to and reflected society's crises surrounding gender and sexuality.

In Desire after Dark, Andrew J. Owens explores media where figures such as vampires and witches make use of their supernatural knowledge in order to queer what otherwise appears to be a normative world. Beginning with the global sexual revolutions of the '60s and moving decade by decade through Euro-sleaze cinema and theatrical hardcore pornography, the HIV/AIDS crisis, the popularity of New Age religions and witchcraft, and finally the increasingly explicit sexualization of American cable television, Owens contends that occult media has risen to prominence during the past 60 years as a way of exposing and working through cultural crises about the queer. Through the use of historiography and textual analyses of media from Bewitched to The Hunger, Owens reveals that the various players in occult media have always been well aware that non-normative sexuality constitutes the heart of horror's enduring appeal.

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