"The queer slasher film is an integral icon of horror, and within that genre characters like Freddy Krueger have an avid fanbase whose conversations shift as history does and as perceptions of gender, sexuality, and identity do. In a sense, it seems these audiences know or feel when a slasher is queer but can't pinpoint why. Queer Slashers answers this question "What is queer about the slasher?" Examining queer history and the queer function of the U.S. slasher subgenre of the horror film, unpacking slasher characters from ...
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"The queer slasher film is an integral icon of horror, and within that genre characters like Freddy Krueger have an avid fanbase whose conversations shift as history does and as perceptions of gender, sexuality, and identity do. In a sense, it seems these audiences know or feel when a slasher is queer but can't pinpoint why. Queer Slashers answers this question "What is queer about the slasher?" Examining queer history and the queer function of the U.S. slasher subgenre of the horror film, unpacking slasher characters from their origins through their rise to infamy, and looking at contemporary variations of these characters, author Peter Marra discovers exciting evolutions of a classic queer character type whose inception is enmeshed with queer history. Queer Slashers makes the case that slashers are queer and that queer slashers - slashers made by queer artists for queer tastes - have importantly engaged with this queerness and reclaimed it for queer audiences"--
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