Date of Award
7-17-2009
Degree Type
Thesis
Degree Name
Master of Arts (MA)
Department
English
First Advisor
Dr. Margaret Mills Harper - Chair
Second Advisor
Dr Calvin Thomas
Third Advisor
Dr Mary Hocks
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.
DOI
https://doi.org/10.57709/1059522
Recommended Citation
McDougald, Melanie, "Where I am, There (Sh)it will be: Queer Presence in Post Modern Horror Films." Thesis, Georgia State University, 2009.
doi: https://doi.org/10.57709/1059522