The Monsters are Out: Representations of Homosexuality and Taboo in American Horror Films

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A analytical study of representations of homosexual characters and themes from the beginnings of the American horror genre in the thirties to the sixties and how these representations changed in films after the seventies due, in part, to the stonewall riots and the gay liberation movement within American society

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American, cinema, horror, homosexuality, taboo, stonewall, The Fly, Psycho, Dracula, Cat People, movies, gay liberation, equality, acceptance, Tourneur, Schrader, Hitchcock, Van Sant, Cronenberg, Browning, Coppola, Neuman

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