Absolute Pleasure (eBook)

Queer Perspectives on Rocky Horror

Margot Atwell (Herausgeber)

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2025
281 Seiten
The Feminist Press at CUNY (Verlag)
978-1-55861-351-5 (ISBN)

Infos

Queer writers reflect on the complicated legacy ofThe Rocky Horror Picture Show.Since its earliest midnight showings at the Waverly Theater in New York City, The Rocky Horror Picture Show has been an underground sensation. For five decades, people around the world have dressed up and gathered in dark theaters to dance, yell, mime obscene acts, and forge connections with other queer people and weirdos.The film shattered expectations and social norms at the time of its release. But how does its presentation of queernessnot to mention its portrayals of murder, manipulation, consent violation, and cannibalismhold up today? The essays in Absolute Pleasureby queer writers including Sarah Gailey, Grace Lavery, and Magdalene Visaggioexplore the film's complicated legacy, along with queer and trans joy, sexuality, family, generational understandings of queerness, and what we do with our problematic faves.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 16.9.2025
• Co-Autor: Magdalene Visaggio, Grace Lavery
• Vorwort: Carmen Maria Machado
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Theater / Ballett
• Schlagworte: absolute pleasure • Anniversary • Criticism • Fiftieth • Film Studies • LGBT • LGBT+ • LGBTQ • Meat Loaf • messy • Musicals • problematic • problematic fave • Queer • Queer Film • queer musicals • rhps • rhps 50th • Richard O’Brien • Rocky Horror • rocky horror picture show • Susan Sarandon • Tim Curry • time warp • Trans
• ISBN-10: 1-55861-351-X / 155861351X
• ISBN-13: 978-1-55861-351-5 / 9781558613515