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[ecrea] New Monograph on Queer Horror Film and Television

Wed Dec 07 06:30:49 GMT 2016



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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