COLLECTION NAME:
Graduate Thesis Collection
Record
Title:
We Keep Odd Hours: The Queer Vampire Community in 1980s Horror Cinema
Creator:
Lewis, William (Brant)
Subject:
Thesis (M.F.A.) -- Film and Television
Subject:
Savannah College of Art and Design -- Department of Film and Television
Rights:
Copyright is retained by the authors or artists of items in this collection, or their descendants, as stipulated by United States copyright law.
Abstract:
"The thesis examines how 1980s vampire films Fright Night, The Lost Boys, and Near Dark explore the concept of the LGBTQ+ community as outsiders during that period. It is important to note that vampire films during that period reinterpreted and retooled the mythos for a 'modern audience.' Similarly, the LGBTQ+ community rose to the forefront during that period due to the AIDS crisis, drug use, and the return of family values. As a result, the queer element essential to vampires became recontextualized to explore these issues. Also, instead of vampires being solitary creatures, the vampires in these specific films have relationships or exist as units as a means of survival. It is essential to explore these issues through a queer lens since it can provide another way of reading and understanding the films in question beyond the traditional heteronormative lens." --Abstract
Keywords: vampire, LGBTQ+, Queer, horror, 1980s, Queer Theory, community, AIDS
Keywords: vampire, LGBTQ+, Queer, horror, 1980s, Queer Theory, community, AIDS
Publisher:
Savannah, Georgia : Savannah College of Art and Design (Atlanta)
Date:
2021-11
Format:
2 online resources: 1 PDF (Thesis, 25 pages, color illustrations) + 1 mp4 film (Studio component, approximately 14 min., sound, color)