Dread Reckoning

Horrors in the Queer Film Closet: Horrifying Heteronormative Scapegoating

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Horrors in the Queer Film Closet: Horrifying Heteronormative Scapegoating

By

Marco Lanzagorta

/ 29 October 2020

The artificial connection between homosexuality and communism created the popular myth of evil and undetectable gay subversives living inside 1950s American society. Queer film both reflected and refracted the homophobia.

Horrors in the Closet: A Closet Full of Monsters

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Horrors in the Closet: A Closet Full of Monsters

By

Marco Lanzagorta

/ 28 October 2020

A closet full of monsters is a scary place where "straight people" can safely negotiate and articulate their fascination and/or dread of "difference" in sexuality.

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Unfulfilled Desires, Fulfilled Nightmares

By

Marco Lanzagorta

/ 18 January 2010

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Frightful Rome

By

Marco Lanzagorta

/ 26 October 2009

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Horrifyingly Close to Reality

By

Marco Lanzagorta

/ 20 September 2009

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International d’Horreur

By

Marco Lanzagorta

/ 29 July 2009

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Fighting the Flu

By

Marco Lanzagorta

/ 3 May 2009

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By One’s Own Hand, Then

By

Marco Lanzagorta

/ 17 February 2009

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Something to Do with Death

By

Marco Lanzagorta

/ 5 January 2009

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Horrors in the Closet: Transgressing All Boundaries

By

Marco Lanzagorta

/ 17 September 2008

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Horrors in the Closet: Horrifying Heteronormative Scapegoating

By

Marco Lanzagorta

/ 21 August 2008

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The Demise of Horror Culture?

By

Marco Lanzagorta

/ 12 May 2008