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Horror
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 Monsters
in the Closet : Homosexuality and the Horror Film (Inside
Popular Film)
by Harry M. Benshoff
They are half-human horrors, strange and scary
aliens, the seemingly-normal-but-deadly danger that lurks around
the corner: Hollywood monsters, or homosexuals? Horror fiction has
always portrayed society's greatest fears as monstrous
incarnations of "the other," so it should be no surprise
that there has always been a clear homoerotic subtext in horror
films--from Frankenstein
to Interview
with the Vampire. Harry M. Benshoff's Monsters in the
Closet details how Hollywood monsters have not only been a
reflection of homosexuals, but that changes in the horror film
have actually mirrored changes in attitudes toward homosexuality
in our society. Discussing hundreds of classic (and not so
classic) movies, Benshoff provides new insight into horror and
science fiction films and into how popular culture presents ideas
about homosexuality to a broad audience.
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Essay by Gary Morris
Excerpt: After decades
of being devalued by lousy prints on video and television,
Universal's classic '30s horror films have been resurrected,
refurbished, and unleashed on the big screen as part of a
traveling repertory show opening at San Francisco's Castro
Theater. The first thing sensitive audiences will notice about
the series, after the obligatory bow to the superb quality of the
new 35mm prints, is the all-pervasive, barely disguised, downright
queerness of classics like Dracula, Frankenstein, The Bride of
Frankenstein, The Invisible Man, The Old Dark House, The Black
Cat, and Dracula's Daughter... |
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