Are you Queer for Fear? (with Dr. Heather Petrocelli)

Sapphic Culture Club

The theme for this season is LESBIAN CHAOSSS, and what better way to kick things off than a deep, dark dive into horror. We're joined by our beloved Dr. Horror Dyke (a.k.a. Heather Petrocelli) to talk about their brand new book Queer for Fear: Horror Film and the Queer Spectator.

Highlights include:

😌 Queers currently have the crown for the largest empirical study in horror studies

❤️‍🔥 How the book came to be

💥 Horror is queer

🔥 FILM IS QUEER

🚀 Why writing an academic book was important

⛰️ Discussing some of the great (and not so great) research that came before it

💞 The importance of queer community

🍿 The live cinema experience

💅🏽 Horror and camp

Episode transcript: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1CIFdcbLdXEdp-XWIPQs3p5gfBzmxDy5iHTE_t7dcNlE/edit?usp=drive_link

Queer for Fear: Horror Film and the Queer Spectator

(US hardcover pre-order) https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/distributed/Q/bo208655516.html

(UK ebook available now, hardcover pre-order) https://www.uwp.co.uk/book/queer-for-fear/

Note: the ebook is also available through Kobo, Amazon, and other ebook sellers.

Queer for Fear cover art print: https://buyolympia.com/Item/amie-pascal-queer-for-fear-print

Horror Noire: A History of Black Horror https://www.amazon.com/Horror-Noire-History-Black/dp/B07NDQLVS7