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Index
Cover
Half Title
Endorsement
Series Information
Title Page
Copyright Page
Contents
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Approaching Queer Horror
Psychoanalysis and queer horror
1 ‘Queering Carrie’: Appropriations of a Horror Icon
Narratives Working Forwards: Carrie’s Mutable Origins
Carrie as ‘Final Girl’ and the Heterosexual Presumption
‘You’re a Woman now…!’: Femininity and Masquerade
The Masculine Masquerade
Carrie’s Trans-Sex (Dis)Identifications
2 Indelible: Carrie and the Boyz
Indelible (adj.)
‘The things that boys do to each other’
Abjection, Blood and Semen
‘After the blood comes the boys’: Phallic Panic in Indelible
Broken men, male vulnerability and the cathartic spectacle
3 The Rise of Queer Fear: DeCoteau and Gaysploitation Horror
David DeCoteau: Gaysploitation horror-‘lite’?
4 Shattering the Closet: Queer Horror Outs Itself
Gender Wars: Dante’s Cove (2005–7) / The Lair (2007–9)
Emasculation anxieties and top/bottom politics in October Moon (2005) and Socket (2007)
Screaming Queens: 50s Queer Creature-Feature Parody
A Far Cry from Acceptance
5 Gay Slasher Horror: Devil Daddies and Final Boys
Hypermasculine Parody in Hellbent
The Devil Daddy and Father Figures in Gaysploitation Horror
Daddy’s Final Boy
The Final Boy’s ‘Broken Gaze’
Sleeping with the Enemy?
6 Pride and Shame: Queer Horror Appropriation
Kitchen Sink Zombies: In the Flesh
Murder and mise-en-abîme in American Horror Story
The Name Game, Self-Loss and the Queering of Identity
Off-Cuts and Conclusions
Notes
Introduction
1 ‘Queering Carrie’: Appropriations of a Horror Icon
2 Indelible: Carrie and the Boyz
3 The Rise of Queer Fear: DeCoteau and Gaysploitation Horror
4 Shattering the Closet: Queer Horror Outs Itself
5 Gay Slasher Horror: Devil Daddies and Final Boys
6 Pride and Shame: Queer Horror Appropriation
Off-Cuts and Conclusions
Bibliography
Selected Filmography
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