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  Reclaiming the Female Monster in "Possibly in Michigan"

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  Erica Tortolani University of Massachusetts - Amherst

  October 30, 2019

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  Reclaiming the Female Monster in "Possibly in Michigan" horror female directors ... Possibly in Michigan.  “Strangely, she had a way of making the violence seem like it was their idea.”  ... that would follow, Possibly in Michigan upends the images that have been traditionally assigned to ...
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  Queer Othering of Los Espookys

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  Kristen Leer

  November 17, 2022

  identities and narrative styles that expand their horror, and Los Espookys horror, outside of the expected ... creates opportunities for marginalized narratives and characters to exist within and outside the bounds of ... queerness of Los Espookys becomes prevalent as “all the characters live outside acceptable socio-sexual ...
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  “Bricks”- a Supernatural vid by Luminosity

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  Louisa Stein Middlebury College

  January 31, 2008

  1 comment

  the forces of “darkness” from outside and within across a horror/noir landscape. While Sam and Dean’s ...
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  Corporate Authorship, Film Adaptation, and Universal Pictures’ The Raven (1935)

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  Kyle Edwards Oakland University

  November 27, 2007

  4 comments

  of betrayal and torture and, in a more harrowing possibility, possess the potential of transforming ...
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  Gendered Horror, Sexual Assault, and Revenge (2017)

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  Geneveive Newman University of Pittsburgh

  October 29, 2019

  8 comments

  the Soska Sisters’ American Mary and more recently Coralie Fargeat’s Revenge? I’m not here to argue ...
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  Electrifying the Dead: The Psycho Franchise and Industrial Horror

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  Alex_Remington University of Texas at Austin, Department of Radio-TV-Film

  October 27, 2021

  boundaries, is a defining mark of horror—Mary Douglas talks about it in relation to im/purity, Julie Kristeva ...
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  The Blood is the Life/Death: Queer Contagion and Viral Vampirism in the Age of HIV/AIDS

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  Andrew Owens DePaul University

  August 05, 2014

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  Plague: AIDS and the American Media, making this disease as “spooky as possible helped make AIDS ...
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  How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the "Killer Condom"

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  Kaelin B.C. Alexander Cornell University

  March 19, 2009

  7 comments

  Bad Film Curator's Note Killer Condom (1996) is quite possibly the most pro-queer film of the ...
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  The Train and the Nonhuman in Halloween

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  DawnKeetley Lehigh University

  October 30, 2018

  3 comments

  rational explanation. Myers may be an intransigent “stranger,” outside the norms of human community, but he ...
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  The Parodic Reprise of 80s Camp Queerness in American Horror Story: 1984

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  Stephanie A. Graves Georgia State University

  April 02, 2020

  2 comments

  the focus on Trevor’s outsized anatomy; spying from outside, gay porn producer Blake declares with ...

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