New Queer Horror Film and Television

This anthology comprises essays that study the form, aesthetics and representations of LGBTQ+ identities in an emerging sub-genre of film and television termed 'New Queer Horror'. This sub-genre designates horror crafted by directors/producers who identify as gay, bi, queer or transgendered, or works like Jeepers Creepers (2001), Let the Right One In (2008), Hannibal (2013-15), or American Horror Story: Coven (2013-14), which feature homoerotic or explicitly homosexual narratives with 'out' LGBTQ+ characters. Unlike other studies, this anthology argues that New Queer Horror projects contemporary anxieties within LGBTQ+ subcultures onto its characters and into its narratives, building upon the previously figurative role of Queer monstrosity in the moving image. New Queer Horror thus highlights the limits of a metaphorical understanding of queerness in the horror film, in an age where its presence has become unambiguous. Ultimately, this anthology aims to show that in recent years New Queer Horror has turned the focus of fear on itself, on its own communities and subcultures.

This book will appeal to undergraduate and postgraduate students of Gender Studies and LGBTQ studies, students of Film and TV studies - with an emphasis on considerations of genre tropes, representations of sexuality, gender and queerness in the moving image. Readers may also come from the aca-fan community - that is - community of LGBTQ+ fans of Horror that exists online, and in the media.