Monsters in the Closet - Homosexuality and the Horror Film

Informationen zum Autor Harry M. Benshoff recently received his doctorate from the University of Southern California's School of Cinema-Television. He teaches film and television classes in and around Los Angeles. Klappentext One of the few books to address the horror film from any kind of critical position.. Unique - The first history of the horror film to approach it from a queer perspective.. Written with detail and thoroughness - covers all eras of the horror film and correlates specific types of movie monsters to the historical social conditions which produced them.. Explores how popular culture encodes and demonizes queerness within the generic format of the horror film. Zusammenfassung This history of the horror film explores the genre's relationship to the social and cultural history of homosexuality in America. The text draws on a wide variety of films and primary sources including censorship files! critical reviews! promotional materials! fanzines and popular news weeklies. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Defining the Monster Queer in the Classical Hollywod Horror Film, 2. Shock Treatment: Curing the Monster Queer during World War II, 3. Pods, Pederasts, and Perverts: (Re)Criminalizing the Monster Queer in Cold War Culture, 4. Exposing the Monster Queer to the Sunlight, Circa the 1969 Stonewall Rebellion, 5. Satan Spawn and Out and Proud: Monster Queers in the Postmodern Era

Product details

• Authors: Harry Benshoff, Harry M. Benshoff, BENSHOFF HARRY M
• Assisted by: Mark Jancovich (Editor), Eric Schaefer (Editor)
• Publisher: Manchester University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 19.06.1997
• EAN: 9780719044731
• ISBN: 978-0-7190-4473-1
• No. of pages: 336
• Dimensions: 140 mm x 216 mm x 19 mm
• Series: Inside Popular Film; Print on demand; Inside Popular Film
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Photography, film, video, TV; PERFORMING ARTS / Film / History & Criticism, Gay Studies (Gay Men), SOCIAL SCIENCE / LGBTQ+ Studies / General, Film Theory & Criticism, Monsters, Film history, theory or criticism, LGBTQ+ Studies / topics