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Harry M. Benshoff

Monsters in the Closet

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British horror film
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Cinema and society
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explores how popular culture encodes and demonizes queerness
Gender
Genre
historical social conditions
history
Horror studies
Monsters
movie monsters
Postmodern era
queer perspective
satan
shock treatment
Stonewall Rebellion

Product details

  • ISBN 9780719044731
  • Dimensions: 138 x 216mm
  • Publication Date: 19 Jun 1997
  • Publisher: Manchester University Press
  • Publication City/Country: GB
  • Product Form: Paperback
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Description
One of the few books to address the horror film from any kind of critical position.. Unique - The first history of the horror film to approach it from a queer perspective.. Written with detail and thoroughness - covers all eras of the horror film and correlates specific types of movie monsters to the historical social conditions which produced them.. Explores how popular culture encodes and demonizes queerness within the generic format of the horror film.
About Harry M. Benshoff
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