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It Came from the Closet
Joe Vallese
Non-Fiction
It Came from the Closet
by Joe Vallese
—· 320 p· 2022
reflectivephilosophicalhaunting
Overview
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"Horror opened me up to new possibilities for survival ... I saw power in freakery and transgression and wondered if it could be mine." The relationship between horror films and the LGBTQ+ community? It's complicated. Haunted houses, forbidden desires and the monstrous can have striking resonance for those who've been marginalised. But the genre's murky history of an alarmingly heterosexual male gaze, queer-coded villains and sometimes blatant homophobia, is impossible to overlook. There is tens…
Pages
320
Saraband / Contraband
Linguistic complexity
3/5
Moderate
Thematic complexity
4/5
Rich
Rating
—
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Reader feel
Queer Cultural Criticism
9
Emotional depth
8
Anthology Range
8
Prose
7
Narration
7
Pacing
6
Worldbuilding
2
Plot twists
1
My journey
My experience
private
Status
Unread
Started
DNF
Finished
My rating
Burndown
Reading days
Notes
your reading journal
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It Came from the Closet
Joe Vallese
Non-Fiction
It Came from the Closet
by Joe Vallese
— · —· 320 pages· 2022
reflectivephilosophicalhaunting
"Horror opened me up to new possibilities for survival ... I saw power in freakery and transgression and wondered if it could be mine." The relationship between horror films and the LGBTQ+ community? It's complicated. Haunted houses, forbidden desires and the monstrous can have striking resonance for those who've been marginalised. But the genre's murky history of an alarmingly heterosexual male gaze, queer-coded villains and sometimes blatant homophobia, is impossible to overlook. There is tens…