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Queer Horror, Laura Westengard
Queer Horror, Laura Westengard
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This chapter examines the queer Gothicism of American horror to consider the ways in which marginalized genders and sexualities have been either condemned or covertly endorsed through horror’s textual and visual mediums. In mainstream cis-heteronormative society, queer genders and sexualities have been an abjectified, “horrific” presence, and these mainstream investments represented via horror, as a mode of expression devoted to irruptions of the body, means that the presence of queerness is often registered as an a priori spoliation of bodily norms. Like the term “queer” itself, audiences have often reappropriated the Gothic figures that appear in horror, and some queer …
Sex Is As Sex Does: Governing Transgender Identity (Preface And Introduction), Paisley Currah
Sex Is As Sex Does: Governing Transgender Identity (Preface And Introduction), Paisley Currah
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Queer Gothic Literature And Culture, Laura Westengard
Queer Gothic Literature And Culture, Laura Westengard
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Hail, Caesar!, Kel R. Karpinski
Hail, Caesar!, Kel R. Karpinski
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This piece looks at queer characters in the Coen Brothers’ film Hail, Caesar! (2016). The film takes place during the heyday of the Hollywood film studio set in 1951 and draws on many films during that time period of the 1930s, 40s and 50s.
Rhetoric Of The Invisible (Or, How Bisexual People Demand To Be Seen), Olivia Wood
Rhetoric Of The Invisible (Or, How Bisexual People Demand To Be Seen), Olivia Wood
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While the term in its modern usage existed earlier, the word “bisexual” consolidated its meaning as a sexual identity during the 1970s. In the following decades, the term became the source of much consternation in the gay and lesbian communities, in part due to the pressures of political lesbianism and the stigmas of the AIDS epidemic. The first bisexual-specific organizations in the US and the UK formed in the early 1990s, yet bi people continue to struggle for visibility, representation, and acceptance, even within the LGBTQ+ community. For these reasons and others, bisexuality identity presents complicated rhetorical situations for people …