Harry Benshoff

Monsters in the closet

Homosexuality and the Horror Film

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Inside Popular Film
• Verlag: Manchester University Press
• Seitenzahl: 340
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Juli 2004
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 442g
• ISBN-13: 9780719044731
• ISBN-10: 0719044731
• Artikelnr.: 26221870

Autorenporträt

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

Inhaltsangabe

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