Type of Document Master's Thesis Author McDougald, Melanie Author's Email Address engmmx@langate.gsu.edu URN etd-07162009-154006 Title WHERE I AM, THERE (SH)IT WILL BE: QUEER PRESENCE IN POST MODERN HORROR FILMS Degree Master of Arts Department English Advisory Committee
Advisor Name Title Dr. Margaret Mills Harper Committee Chair Dr Calvin Thomas Committee Member Dr Mary Hocks Committee Member Keywords
- Neo-slasher films
- Zombie films
- Slasher films
- Lacan
- Psychoanalytic theory
- Queer theory
- Post modern horror film
Date of Defense 2009-07-15 Availability unrestricted Abstract This paper will consider the function of queer space and presence in the post modern horror film genre. Beginning with George Romero’s 1968 film Night of the Living Dead and continuing through to contemporary examples of the genre, the paper posits the function of the queer monster or monstrous as integral to and representative of the genre as a whole. The paper analyzes both the current theory and scholarship of the genre and through Lacanian psychoanalytic theory and queer theory offers a theory of how these theories can add to existing theory and scholarship.Files
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