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Book SynopsisTrade ReviewOwens's Desire after Dark makes clear and important contributions to existing literature on queer theory, media studies, and the horror genre. His insightful, focused study will interest both fans of the TV programs and films examined and scholars in various disciplines who will appreciate how adeptly Owens incorporates well-balanced discussions of culture, industry, genre, reception, and representation in compelling reads of the media re-viewed.
-- Richard Wolff * The Journal of Religion, Film, and Media *
Table of ContentsAcknowledgments
Introduction: Blood, Sulfur, Sex, Magick
1. Aquarian Alternatives: Mid-century Media and the Quest for Occultly Queer Histories
2. Le sexe qui parle du surnaturel: Supernatural Sexualities and Satanic Subcultures in the 1970s
3. The Blood is the Life/Death: Queer Contagion and Viral Vampirism in the Age(s) of HIV/AIDS
4. Now is the time, now is the hour, ours is the magick, ours is the power: Casting as Coming Out in Millennial Media
5. Hold Me, Thrill Me, Kiss Me, Kill Me: The Ambivalent Queer of Occult Cable TV
Epilogue
Index
