My teenage self grew up in the closet, believing that Clive Barker was the only openly gay person working in my favorite genre: horror. Luckily, I was wrong, and the presence of LGBTQ+ characters in fantasy cinema has been a constant throughout its history and has only increased in recent decades. In addition to becoming part of the collective imagination, cinematic monsters from Gothic literature such as Dracula, Frankenstein's creature, and Mr. Hyde were some of the first examples of queer representations on the big screen, always linked to what was different, to what was strange, and to everything that went against heteronormativity.From the predominance of negative clichés - lesbians with psychopathic tendencies, bloodthirsty bisexual vampires, transvestite murderers and a long etcetera - to the full acceptance of diversity, Scream Queer proposes a broad tour of the evolution of LGTBIQ+ representation in the fantasy genre through the analysis of hundreds of films, also atoning for the traumas and recounting the personal experiences that have marked the person writing this: a queer obsessed with horror films.
Book details:
- Written by: Javier Parra
- Publisher: Two Mustaches
- Language: Spanish
- Paperback: 304 pages
- Weight: 420 g
- Dimensions: 14.35 x 1.27 x 20.32 cm
- ISBN: 978-84-122925-0-3
- EAN: 9788412292503
