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Beyond the Lesbian Vampire: Reclaiming the Violent Lesbian in Contemporary Queer Horror(Horror Studies)

Beyond the Lesbian Vampire: Reclaiming the Violent Lesbian in Contemporary Queer Horror(Horror Studies)


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Beyond the Lesbian Vampire is a groundbreaking dive into the pervasive cinematic archetype of the violent lesbian, examining this historically problematic figure within cultural and cinematic imagination from witch to vampire to murderer and identifying her resurgence in seven popular and critically acclaimed films of the late 2010s. Each case study depicts unpunished multidimensional lesbian characters trending toward more justifiable narrative reasons for violence; additionally, they reference past iterations of this archetype's 'innate' desire for violence, particularly so for the lesbian vampire. The combination of excessive citation alongside narrative shift gestures towards a reclamation of the lesbian vampire within queer horror, as the author weaves textual analysis and scholarly debate around lesbianism's queerness and homonormativity to reveal the cultural salience of the violent lesbian, and of the queer fears and pleasures she evokes. Beyond the Lesbian Vampire is a vital contribution to lesbian studies, horror studies, queer studies and feminist studies.

Table of Contents:
List of Figures Acknowledgements Introduction: Finding the Violent Lesbian 1. The Myth of the Violent Lesbian 2. For the Love of It: Desire, Power, and Violence in The Neon Demon 3. Framing the Lesbian: Spectatorial Suspicion and Self-reflexivity in The Perfection and Knife + Heart 4. Nature Versus Nurture: Lesbian Fears, Werewolf Mommies, and Wife Killers in What Keeps You Alive and Good Manners 5. Smash (& Burn) The Patriarchy: Reclaiming Lesbian Violence as Feminist Rage in Thelma and Lizzie Conclusion: Reclaiming the Violent Lesbian Film and Series Reference List References cited

About the Author :
Sam Tabet is an independent scholar and Peabody-winning producer of Southwest of Salem, a documentary that helped exonerate four Latina lesbians who were wrongfully convicted during the "Satanic Panic" era.

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"Why does the violent lesbian haunt film screens, and what does she want? Beyond the Lesbian Vampire traces the resurgence of this figure in seven queer horror films released between 2016-19, in which the violent lesbian is reimagined as a complex character shaped by trauma, context, and agency. Through close readings of works such as Thelma, The Perfection and Knife+Heart, Tabet analyses how the selected films both reference and revise earlier portrayals, reframing the lesbian's violence as a site of queer resistance and desire. Long shrouded in invisibility, the lesbian emerges in all her contradictions: powerful, disruptive, excessive and uncontainable. Engaging with debates about queerness, assimilation and representational politics, Tabet situates the violent lesbian as a culturally charged white figure that continues to evoke both fear and pleasure within lesbian and queer communities. Beyond the Lesbian Vampire is at once an examination and a reclamation, an essential intervention for an era marked by conservative populism and cultural extremism. Tabet's detailed analysis investigating how the violent lesbian subverts patriarchal norms is a critical contribution to horror studies, lesbian studies, queer theory and feminist cultural criticism."-- "Heather O. Petrocelli, author of Queer for Fear: Horror Film and the Queer Spectator" "This volume is a lively and thoughtful analysis of recent horror films including The Neon Demon (2016), Knife + Heart (2018), and Lizzie (2018). Exploring these films within the contexts of New Queer Horror, Tabet shows how they rescript the 'violent lesbian' to explore concerns specifically related to LGBTQ+ audiences, including assimilation, family and race. Filled with brilliant insights and detailed analyses, Beyond the Lesbian Vampire is an important contribution to the ever-growing field of queer horror scholarship."-- "Professor Harry M. Benshoff, University of North Texas"


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781837722884
  • Publisher: University of Wales Press
  • Publisher Imprint: University of Wales Press
  • Height: 216 mm
  • No of Pages: 288
  • No of Pages: 288
  • Returnable: 03
  • Sub Title: Reclaiming the Violent Lesbian in Contemporary Queer Horror
  • ISBN-10: 1837722889
  • Publisher Date: 15 Aug 2025
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Language: English
  • No of Pages: 288
  • Returnable: 03
  • Series Title: Horror Studies
  • Width: 138 mm


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