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Queer Horror: A Film Guide

Queer Horror: A Film Guide

Paperback

Film StudiesGLBTQIA Studies

ISBN10: 1476690278
ISBN13: 9781476690278
Publisher: McFarland & Company
Published: Aug 26 2024
Pages: 493
Weight: 2.45
Height: 1.20 Width: 8.20 Depth: 10.60
Language: English

From the beginning, horror has been part of the cinema landscape. Despite some of the earliest genre films with gay directors such as F.W. Murnau (Nosferatu) and James Whale (Frankenstein, The Invisible Man, Bride of Frankenstein), LGBTQIA characters have rarely been portrayed in full view. For decades, filmmakers have included coded content in their films with the homosexual experience translated into censor-friendly subtext for consumption by general audiences. Gradually, LGBTQIA characters and themes have moved from the background to the foreground as the horror genre has grown along with its audience's tastes and attitudes. Likewise, more and more LGBTQIA writers and directors have begun to offer their queer-centric takes on scary movies and today, queer horror is a thriving film genre.

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