A PEER-REVIEWED JOURNAL OF STUDIES IN HORROR AND RELATED AREAS
vol. 7, no.2, December 2024 | ISSN 2561-5629
Queer/ing Horror: Video Essays at the Intersection of Horror and Queerness
Edited by Dayna McLeod
Editor-in-chief: Kristopher Woofter
Associate Editors: Anne Golden, Lynn Kozak, Alanna Thain
Editorial Assistants: Steven Greenwood, Adam Hill, Marcus Prasad
Queer/ing Horror: Video Essays at the Intersection of Horror and Queerness
Edited by Dayna McLeod
Editor-in-chief: Kristopher Woofter
Associate Editors: Anne Golden, Lynn Kozak, Alanna Thain
Editorial Assistants: Steven Greenwood, Adam Hill, Marcus Prasad
OVERVIEW
Monstrum 7, Issue 2, "Queer/ing Horror," is our first issue devoted entirely to videographic scholarship. The brainchild of guest-editor Dayna McLeod, this issue explores the ways in which horror, the "queerest genre" (Petrocelli, in this issue), is and can be motivated to be a radical interrogation into queer experience in moving-image art and culture. Because the video essay is itself an experimental media engagement and performance of moving-image analysis and theory, it has the ability to (re)work the text under analysis in ways that uncover, enhance, reactivate, problematize or enrich the interplay of horror and queerness. The nine videographic essays in this issue not only think about what queer reuse of queerness looks like through a horror lens, they are also acts of queer re-telling and reviewing practices of horror. Written creators' statements to accompany the video essays are available in downloadable PDFs. Scroll down below to browse and view the contents of this special issue of Monstrum.
— Kristopher Woofter |
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Contributors: Mikaela Bobiy, Susan Bruce, Joel Burges, Felicia Cosey, Darren Elliott-Smith, Mario DeGiglio-Bellemare, Lucy Fife Donaldson, Julia Erhart, Michael J. Faris, Anne Golden, Alex Hall, Laura Horak, Caél Keegan, Nina K. Martin, Dayna McLeod, Catarina Nirta, Alison Peirse, Heather O. Petrocelli, Max Ranieri, Kate Robertson, Ada Rosen, May Santiago, Alanna Thain, Laura Westengard, Annaëlle Winand, and Kristopher Woofter.
Acknowledgments: Monstrum would like to thank our editorial board, as well as our collaborators, contributors and peer reviewers. Special thanks to Alanna Thain and the Collective for Research on Epistemologies and Ontologies of Embodied Risk (CORÉRISC). The cover image for Monstrum 7.2 was created by Dayna McLeod. |
Monstrum is published by the Montréal Monstrum Society (MMS). We are grateful for the generous support of the Fonds de recherche du Québec - Société et culture. | Monstrum est reconnaissant du généreux soutien du Fonds de recherche du Québec - Société et culture (FRQSC).
FEATURE VIDEO ESSAYS, ARTISTS' STATEMENTS & INTRODUCTION
INTRODUCTION
Queer/ing Horror: Video Essays at the Intersection of Horror and Queerness By the Monstrum Editorial Team, with Dayna McLeod, and with selected contributions from the peer review statements by Mikaela Bobiy, Joel Burges, Mario DeGiglio-Bellemare, Will Dodson, Michael J. Faris, Anne Golden, Laura Horak, Caél M. Keegan, Nina K. Martin, Catarina Nirta, Kate Robertson, Alanna Thain, Laura Westengard, Annaëlle Winand, and Kristopher Woofter. |
Jouissance at the Margins: Revisiting Bersani's “Is the Rectum a Grave?”
Through the Lens of Swallowed
FELICIA COSEY
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Lick the Blade: Locating a Queer Archive of Debris in Roberta Findlay’s The Oracle
ALEX HALL
Read the Creator's Statement
We’re All Scrolling Through the World’s Fair: Online Horror Fiction
as a Site of Queer Identity Formation
MAX RANIERI
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Decentering Monstrosity in The Children’s Hour (1961)
JULIA ERHART and SUSAN BRUCE
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"Every creak, every groan, every tap in the wall, you'll think of me":
Spinning the Web of Trans*-Horror Metaphors in Cobweb (2023)
DARREN ELLIOTT-SMITH
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