It Came from the Closet: Queer Reflections on Horror

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Both Ways (Jennifer's Body)" by Carmen Maria Machado, "My Hand on the Glass (Hereditary)" by Bruce Owens Grimm, "The Wolf Man's Daughter (The Wolf Man)" by Tosha R. There are spoilers for the movies but you don’t need to have seen all of them to gain something from the essays. Te eseje to nie tylko queerowość, ale także rasa, klasa, zdrowie psychiczne (nie licząc fatalnego podejścia wyżej wspomnianego fatalnego eseju, który zmiótł z planszy wszystkie tematy, wtf w ogóle), perspektywa osób z niepełnosprawnościami czy chorobami przewlekłymi, rodzicielstwo, rodziny imigranckie, i dużo więcej.

Joe Vallese is Clinical Associate Professor in the Expository Writing Program at New York University. It Came From the Closet is at times beautiful, at times funny, at times gorgeously weird and baroque, and always as off-kilter brilliant as the genre, and queerness, itself. An impressively diverse array of queer voices contributes their opinions on how and why particular horror movies made a personal and indelible impression on them. I know she has Cuban heritage but it makes me sad that sometimes foreigners are able to appreciate Cuban culture more than us because they’re not under the weight of our government.Zapadł mi w głowę prześwietny esej osoby agenderowej na temat postrzegania ciała i seksualności, bardzo egzystencjalny w wydźwięku; co ciekawy, był to jedyny esej, w którym pojawiło się słowo „aseksualny”, a to i tak tylko przy wyliczaniu postaw wobec seksu.

I hadn't really thought much about how my queer and transness related to these sorts of media until reading this text.It’s a book that doesn’t ask many questions and allows readers to sit with each author’s interests in their own intersections of identity and love for a medium that a lot of queer people find drawn to in deeply personal ways. His creative and pop culture writing appears in Bomb, Vice, Backstage, PopMatters, Southeast Review, and North American Review, among other publications. All in all I think this book really bridges a gap between a queer memoir storytelling and academic media analysis making the topics accessible to a wider audience. To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. These clear, insightful, and deeply personal essays reveal the real reasons why we've all been so scared.

I couldn’t relate to the abuse story she was telling, but it was something deeper than that, I felt anxious, and so agitated that I had to stop reading it a few times. Some essays tend more towards personal reflection and memoir, others more towards analysis of various films through a queer lens; some move into lyrical "creative nonfiction" territory and others take their tone from the humanities graduate student essay or the chatty, freewheeling blog post. They are well written and the storytelling aspect of it makes this sort of analysis so much more accessible and entertaining to read.She is the author of Blood Box , winner of the Black River Editor's Choice Award, and the microchap Wolf Inventory . His work has appeared in the anthologies "Instant Classic (That No One Will Read)" (Night Beats / tRaum, 2023) and "It Came From the Closet" (Feminist Press, 2022), as well as in anthologies recognized by Lambda Literary: the 2021 finalist "Trans-Galactic Bike Ride," the 2012 finalist "Letters for my Brothers: Transitional Wisdom in Retrospect," and the 2011 winner "Balancing on the Mechitza: Transgender in Jewish Community. Her fiction and cinema writing have appeared in Bosie , Evergreen Review , Leste Magazine , the Los Angeles Review of Books , Museum of the Moving Image’s Reverse Shot , and others.

First with Shudder's Queer for Fear series that aired in October, and now with this collection of horror movie analyses through a queer lens. Kirsty Logan ’s latest book is Now She is Witch (Harvill Secker, 2023), a queer medieval witch revenge quest.Some discuss how certain tropes and characters were purposely or accidentally coded as queer and many other sorts of analysis. When you look up the definition of horror films, what appears is something along the lines of: It explores dark subject matter and deals with transgressive topics and themes… normality is threatened by a monster…repulsive…all boundaries are dissolved. His writing has also been listed as notable in The Best American Essays , and he is an active member of the National Book Critics Circle. Whip-smart, honest, and hilarious… gore aficionados and reads-the-Wiki-plot-summary scaredy-cats alike will find something haunting to love within its pages. A really terrific collection of essays by a great selection and variety of different authors—both fiction authors, poets, and essayists—about the intersection between queer studies and queer identity and horror movies.