FALL 2024 LECTURE SERIES
QUEER HORROR TEXTS
QUEER HORROR TEXTS
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“He’s Inside Me”: Queer Textualities and Spectatorships
in A Nightmare on Elm Street 2: Freddy’s Revenge
in A Nightmare on Elm Street 2: Freddy’s Revenge
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Monday, October 21, 2024
7pm Groupe Intervention Vidéo (GIV) 4001, rue Berri, # 105 Métros Mont-Royal, Sherbrooke |
At the time of its release, speculations about the infamous queer subtext of A Nightmare on Elm Street 2 (1985) plagued Jack Sholder’s much-despised continuation of Wes Craven’s 1984 fan favourite. Today, the film is celebrated by the queer community as a decisively queer text. Looking at the different textual and spectatorial angles at play in A Nightmare on Elm Street 2, this talk will examine how the film can simultaneously function as one of the most hated horror sequels in cinema history and one of the gayest.
Lecture and screening, free and open to the public.
Lecture and screening, free and open to the public.
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FUL MASSIMI is an educator based in Tio'tia:ke/Mooniyang/Montréal. Since 2020, they have been working in the Department of Humanities, Philosophy, and Religion (HPR) at John Abbott College, where they teach courses in queer film and media, documentary cinema, and the ethics of spectatorship.
Girls Go Wild: Selling Jennifer’s Body
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Monday, October 28, 2024
7pm Groupe Intervention Vidéo (GIV) 4001, rue Berri, # 105 Métros Mont-Royal, Sherbrooke |
Jennifer’s Body belongs to Megan Fox--and Fox + Amanda Seyfried + Monsters + Gore was sold as a slick and sticky teenage boy’s wet nightmare. But director Karyn Kusuma and writer Diablo Cody made a film that explores the intensity of girls’ attachments despite the boys that exploit them. This lecture shifts the perspective on this recuperated classic 15 years on to explore how hell is BEING a teenage girl.
Lecture and screening, free and open to the public.
Lecture and screening, free and open to the public.
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KAREN HERLAND teaches a range of sexuality-themed courses at Concordia University including Queer Horror. She is on the Board of the Montreal Monstrum Society.
