Absolute Pleasure
eBook - ePub

Absolute Pleasure

Queer Perspectives on Rocky Horror

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eBook - ePub

Absolute Pleasure

Queer Perspectives on Rocky Horror

About this book

Queer writers reflect on the complicated legacy of The Rocky Horror Picture Show.

Since its earliest midnight showings at the Waverly Theater in New York City, The Rocky Horror Picture Show has been an underground sensation. For five decades, people around the world have dressed up and gathered in dark theaters to dance, yell, mime obscene acts, and forge connections with other queer people and weirdos.

The film shattered expectations and social norms at the time of its release. But how does its presentation of queerness—not to mention its portrayals of murder, manipulation, consent violation, and cannibalism—hold up today? The essays in Absolute Pleasure—by queer writers including Sarah Gailey, Grace Lavery, and Magdalene Visaggio—explore the film's complicated legacy, along with queer and trans joy, sexuality, family, generational understandings of queerness, and what we do with our problematic faves.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Advance Praise for Absolute Pleasure
  3. Cover
  4. Copyright
  5. Contents
  6. Dedication
  7. Foreword
  8. Introduction
  9. There’s a Light: The Queer Chaos and Magic of The Rocky Horror Picture Show
  10. Going Home: Found Family and The Rocky Horror Picture Show
  11. Tinted
  12. Asexuality in Transylvania
  13. Time Slip: Rewinding Rocky Horror
  14. Midnight Picture Show
  15. A Rather Tender Subject
  16. Brief Encounters with Dr. Frank-N-Furter
  17. On the Queer Morality of Rocky Horror
  18. Calling All Aliens
  19. A Cinnamon Role
  20. Meeting My Mom at the Frankenstein Place
  21. A Wild and Untamed Thing: How Performing in a RHPS Shadow Cast Helped Me Discover My Bodily Autonomy
  22. Becoming a Regular Frankie Fan
  23. Rocky Horror and the Performance Cults of Flloyd
  24. Who Lives in the Old Dark House?
  25. To Find the Truth I’ve Even Lied: Self-Deception and Liberation in The Rocky Horror Picture Show
  26. The Sound of Home in Daydream
  27. My Words to Dr. Frank-N-Furter
  28. Double Feature
  29. Three Ways
  30. To Absent Friends: AIDS and the Rocky Horror Community
  31. A Light in the Darkness: Coming Home
  32. Sweet Transgression
  33. This Town Is Neutered: Queer Longing in the Far North
  34. One from the Vaults
  35. About the Contributors
  36. Acknowledgments
  37. About the Editor
  38. Also Available from Feminist Pres
  39. About Feminist Press