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How To Make A Monster: The Homosexual Experience In Horror And Thriller Cinema, Mia Lindenburg
How To Make A Monster: The Homosexual Experience In Horror And Thriller Cinema, Mia Lindenburg
The Review: A Journal of Undergraduate Student Research
Horror and thriller’s subtextual stories within cinema have been prominent across many subgenres, creating a wide-spread correlation between the homosexual and the monstruous that grew even noticeable after the start of the AIDS epidemic. Much of horror critique and analysis has been focused on the objectification of the feminine, but the unique role that the male plays in horror and thriller (both as a villain and victim) deserves equal inspection. The research done in this paper demonstrates how horror cinema skews the suggested gender roles and how fear makes us more easily let go of the societal norms held so …