[ecrea] Call for Abstracts: Edited collection on New Queer Horror Film and TV

*CFP: Edited Collection*

***(co-edited by John Edgar Browning and Darren Elliott-Smith)*

***“Off-Cuts: New Queer Horror Aesthetics in Film and Television”*

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Academic studies of homosexuality in Horror film and television have
often centered upon its presence as sub-textual and symbolic and have
often discussed the threat that queer, gay and lesbian sexualities pose
to an assumed heterosexual spectator. The seminal works of scholars
including Robin Wood, Carol Clover, Richard Dyer, Ellis Hanson and Harry
M. Benshoff have found that much of its representation has been symbolic
or implicit, whereby homosexuality must be teased out of its place in
the shadows via queer interpretation. In the vast majority of such
‘closeted’ Gothic texts, spectators must first make the leap of reading
the /symbolic /homosexual in the supernatural; few consider the
/explicit/ presentation of queerness on screen. The purpose of this
edited collection is /not /to reiterate the argument that homosexuality
is a key element in the study of the Horror genre; rather, it is to
highlight the /limits/ of a metaphorical understanding of homosexuality
in the horror film in an age where its presence (2000 onwards) has
become more explicit.

Modern queer horror film and television texts (such as /Hellbent/,
/Socket/, /Gay Bed and Breakfast of Terror/, /The Lair/, /American
Horror Story, Scream Queens, A Far Cry From Home/, /Penny Dreadful, LA
Zombie, /representations of sexual difference (whether it be via their
monsters, victims or their victim-hero figures) can be said to reveal
more about queer anxieties in the early twenty-first century than
heterosexual ones. In departing from the analysis of the queer monster
as a symbol of heterosexual anxiety and fear, this collection hopes to
move the discussion forward to focus instead on the anxieties /within
/queer subcultures.

Furthermore, this collection hopes to investigate the developing
aesthetics of contemporary queer Horror film and television’s
foregrounding of sexual difference, violence and eroticism in its ‘out’,
but not necessarily proud, portrayal of queerness. It begs the question,
when monstrousness as a metaphor for the threat homosexuality poses to
heteronormativity ceases to be coded and instead becomes open, then what
does it /mean/?

Abstracts for possible contributions to this collection are being
accepted (but not confined to) the following thematic concerns:

-       LGBTQ identities in modern Horror film and television texts

-       Modern New Queer Horror auteurs

-       Queer representations of Gender - Masculinity/Femininity/Transgender

-       Queer appropriations of ‘Classical Horror’ (in television,
theatre or film)

-       Homonormativity in New Queer Horror

-       Eroticism and Pornography in New Queer Horror

-       Genre intersections/fusions of Horror with other forms

-       New Queer Horror inter-textuality and self-reflexivity

-       Psychoanalytic readings of contemporary Queer Horror Film and
Television

-       Adaptation and contemporary Queer Horror

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Abstracts should be no more than 300 words, accompanied by a 150 word
bio, and sent to Dr. Darren Elliott-Smith (University of Hertfordshire)

Email: (d.elliott-smith /at/ herts.ac.uk) <mailto:(d.elliott-smith /at/ herts.ac.uk)>.
Deadline: June 20^th 2016



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