The long hallway /
Growing up queer, closeted and afraid, Richard Scott Larson found expression for his interior life in horror films, especially John Carpenter's 1978 classic, Halloween. He developed an intense childhood identification with Michael Myers, Carpenter's inscrutable masked villain, as well as M...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Madison :
University of Wisconsin Press,
[2024].
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| Series: | Living out.
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| Summary: | Growing up queer, closeted and afraid, Richard Scott Larson found expression for his interior life in horror films, especially John Carpenter's 1978 classic, Halloween. He developed an intense childhood identification with Michael Myers, Carpenter's inscrutable masked villain, as well as Michael's potential victims. In The Long Hallway, Larson scrutinizes this identification, meditating on horror as a metaphor for the torments of the closet. |
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| Physical Description: | 171 pages ; 23 cm. |
| ISBN: | 0299347249 9780299347246 |