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Horrors in the Queer Film Closet: Horrifying Heteronormative Scapegoating
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Horrors in the Queer Film Closet: Horrifying Heteronormative Scapegoating

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 / 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

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 / 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

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 / 18 January 2010
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Frightful Rome

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 / 26 October 2009
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Horrifyingly Close to Reality

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 / 20 September 2009
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International d’Horreur

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 / 29 July 2009
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Fighting the Flu

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 / 3 May 2009
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By One’s Own Hand, Then

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 / 17 February 2009
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Something to Do with Death

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 / 5 January 2009
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Horrors in the Closet: Transgressing All Boundaries

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 / 17 September 2008
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Horrors in the Closet: Horrifying Heteronormative Scapegoating

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 / 21 August 2008
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The Demise of Horror Culture?

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 / 12 May 2008