It Came From the Closet: Queer Reflections on Horror - Couverture souple

Joe Vallese (Editor); Carmen Maria Machado (Contributor); Bruce Owens Grimm (Contributor); Zefyr Lisowski (Contributor); Richard Scott Larson (Contributor); Sarah Fonseca (Contributor); Kirsty Logan

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1913393828 ISBN 13 : 9781913393823

Editeur : Saraband, 2023

Synopsis

“Horror opened me up to new possibilities for survival … I saw power in freakery and transgression and wondered if it could be mine.”

The relationship between horror films and the LGBTQ+ community? It’s complicated. Haunted houses, forbidden desires and the monstrous can have striking resonance for those who’ve been marginalised. But the genre’s murky history of an alarmingly heterosexual male gaze, queer-coded villains and sometimes blatant homophobia, is impossible to overlook. There is tension here, and there are as many queer readings of horror films as there are queer people.

Edited by Joe Vallese, and with contributions by writers including Kirsty Logan and Carmen Maria Machado, the essays in It Came from the Closet bring the particulars of the writers’ own experiences, whether in relation to gender, sexuality, or both, to their unique interpretations of horror films from Jaws to Jennifer’s Body.

Exploring a multitude of queer experiences from first kisses and coming out to transition and parenthood, this is a varied and accessible collection that leans into the fun of horror while taking its cultural impact and reciprocal relationship to the LGBTQ+ community seriously.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Joe Vallese is Clinical Associate Professor in the Expository Writing Program at New York University. His creative and pop culture writing appears in Bomb, Vice, Backstage, PopMatters, Southeast Review, and North American Review, among other publications. He has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize and named a Notable in The Best American Essays. He is coeditor of the anthology What’s Your Exit? A Literary Detour Through New Jersey (Word Riot Press). He holds an MFA from NYU, and MAT and BA degrees from Bard College.

Kirsty Logan’s latest book is Now She is Witch (Harvill Secker, 2023), a queer medieval witch revenge quest. Forthcoming is The Unfamiliar (Virago, 2023), a memoir of queer pregnancy and parenthood. She is also the author of two novels, three story collections, two chapbooks, a short memoir, a 10-hour audio play for Audible, and several collaborative projects with musicians and visual artists. Her books have won the Lambda, Polari, Saboteur, Scott and Gavin Wallace awards. Her work has been optioned for TV, adapted for stage, recorded for radio and podcasts, exhibited in galleries and distributed from a vintage Wurlitzer cigarette machine.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Saraband
• Date d'édition: 2023
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1913393828
• ISBN 13: 9781913393823
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 336
• Éditeur: Vallese Joe
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible