Queer for Fear
eBook - ePub

Queer for Fear

Horror Film and the Queer Spectator

  1. 288 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Queer for Fear

Horror Film and the Queer Spectator

About this book

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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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title
  3. Copyright
  4. Contents
  5. List of Figures
  6. Acknowledgements
  7. Prologue
  8. 1. Horror is Queer: Theoretical and Ontological Foundations
  9. 2. Portrait of a Queer Horror Fan: the Opinions, Habits and Tastes of the Queer Spectator
  10. 3. Trauma and Camp: Queer Connections to Horror
  11. 4. Drag Me to Hell: Queer Performance and Live Cinema
  12. Conclusion
  13. Appendix
  14. Oral History Bibliography
  15. Works Cited
  16. Notes