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Queer for Fear
Horror Film and the Queer Spectator
Series: Horror Studies
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This book is ideal for readers interested in queer studies, film theory, horror enthusiasts, and those exploring the intersections of trauma, camp, and community within LGBTQ+ culture.
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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.
Series: Horror Studies
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Barbara Creed, author of Return of the Monstrous-Feminine, praises Queer for Fear as the first major empirical study of queer horror spectators that thoughtfully examines camp, queer community, trauma, and live cinema. She calls it an original, intelligent, and essential book for queer horror fans and beyond.
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ISBN: 9781837720514
Publisher: University of Wales Press
Format: Hardback
Date Published: 15 September 2023
Country: United Kingdom
Imprint: University of Wales Press
Illustration: Not illustrated
Audience: Professional and scholarly
DIMENSIONS
Spine width: 20.0mm
Width: 138.0mm
Height: 216.0mm
Weight: 250g
Pages: 288
About the Author
Heather O. Petrocelli is an interdisciplinary independent scholar.
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