[ecrea] New Monograph on Queer Horror Film and Television

With apologies for unashamed self-promotion and cross posting, I wanted 
to draw your attention to my new publication, entitled 'Queer Horror 
Film and Television: Masculinity and Sexuality at the Margins', 
Elliott-Smith, Darren (IB Tauris, 2016) which has just been released in 
hardcover and in Kindle formats.

"Here, Darren Elliott-Smith examines how alternative sexualities have 
recently emerged from the shadows in horror films and television 
programmes, with directors and producers employing an overtly queer 
horror aesthetic that unequivocally references homosexuality. 
Elliot-Smith case studies consider many forms of the queer horror genre: 
independent exploitation films (A Far Cry from Home), slashers 
(Hellbent) and even the representation of contemporary gay zombies in LA 
Zombie. Elliott-Smith deviates from analyzing the monster as a symbol of 
heterosexual fear and focuses instead on queer anxieties within gay male 
subcultures. Furthermore, he examines key works to reveal gay men's 
concerns about their assimilation into Western culture, their continuing 
association with the feminine, and the perpetuation of gay shame."

Commendations: ‘Rigorously researched and offering rich textual and 
cultural analysis of a diverse, and eye-opening, range of horror films 
and TV series, this book offers a transformative understanding of 
horror.’ – STACEY ABBOTT, AUTHOR OF CELLULOID VAMPIRES & UNDEAD APOCALYPSE

"‘Darren Elliott-Smith’s well researched volume takes horror cinema’s 
long held interest in the sexual ‘Other’ as its starting point, before 
fully exploring how the concept of queer horror has moved from subtext 
to centre stage in a range of mainstream and indie  lm and TV 
representations. By drawing on relevant  lm studies, queer theory and 
psychoanalytic methodologies, Queer Horror Film and Television remains a 
rigorous study of the changing status of sexuality in the genre. 
Equally, by drawing in a wide selection of case-studies from body horror 
classics such as Carrie and experimental  lm traditions, to more recent 
‘Gaysploitation’ slasher  lm parodies and cult TV hits such as American 
Horror Story, the volume will appeal to scholars, students and fans 
alike.’ -- Xavier Mendik, Professor of Cult Cinema Studies, Birmingham 
City University

You can obtain the book at a discounted price of £40.60 at 
www.ibtauris.com and using the code TAURIS30.
DARREN ELLIOTT-SMITH is Senior Lecturer in Film and Television at the 
University of Hertfordshire. His research focuses on queerness, gender 
and the body in horror  lm and television.

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