It Came from the Closet: Queer Reflections on Horror

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It Came from the Closet collects twenty-five takes on twenty-five horror films that make us cringe, crack up, turn away and turn back again—each piece lavishly queer in its intelligence, vulnerability, and wit. All of these essays are so articulate and intelligent and offer some beautiful and heartbreaking perspectives on queerness in horror films. But the genre’s murky history of an alarmingly heterosexual male gaze, queer-coded villains and sometimes blatant homophobia, is impossible to overlook. Tucker Lieberman is the author of the novel "Most Famous Short Film of All Time" (tRaum Books, 2022), the poetry collection "Enkidu is Dead and Not Dead / Enkidu está muerto y no lo está" (2021), the 20th-century biography "Ten Past Noon" (2020), the memoir "Bad Fire" (2019), and the literary criticism "Painting Dragons" (2018).

His creative and pop culture writing appears in Bomb , VICE, Backstage, PopMatters, Southeast Review , North American Review , Narrative Northeast , VIA: Voices in Italian-Americana , among others. The second reason: Some of the most interesting details were left as B-plots or insufficiently explored--teases that were frustratingly far more fascinating than what the author had to say about this or that film. There are spoilers for the movies but you don’t need to have seen all of them to gain something from the essays. Because these aren’t really about the movies themselves you can still appreciate the essay without having watched it.A fascinating, often compulsively readable anthology centring on the interconnections between horror films – from vintage monster movies to Get Out - and queer existence, that brings in aspects of memoir, academic theory and literary frameworks from Barbara Creed to Julia Kristeva to Anne Carson but remains accessible throughout. 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.

oftentimes when i review anthologies, i say there were ups and downs, but this book ranges from B++ to A+ all the way through. He is currently clinical associate professor in the Expository Writing Program at New York University, and previously served as site director and faculty for the Bard Prison Initiative. 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.

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