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Beyond the Lesbian Vampire: Reclaiming the Violent Lesbian in Contemporary Queer Horror de Sam Tabet

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

Autor Sam Tabet
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 24 oct 2025
A study of the rebirth and subversion of the violent lesbian trope in queer horror.

Beyond the Lesbian Vampire is a groundbreaking dive into the pervasive archetype of the violent lesbian in cinema. This book examines this historically problematic figure within cultural and cinematic imagination—from witch to vampire to murderer—and identifies her resurgence in seven critically acclaimed queer horror films of the late 2010s, including The Neon Demon (2016), Thelma (2017), Knife + Heart (2018), and The Perfection (2019). Each case study depicts multidimensional lesbian characters whose violence is theoretically more justifiable due to their narrative motives. In addition, this new iteration of the violent lesbian self-consciously references earlier portrayals, including her popular vampiric form, despite shedding her literal fangs. The combination of excessive citation alongside a meaningful narrative shift gestures towards a reclamation of the violent lesbian within queer horror.

The author weaves textual analysis and scholarly debates around assimilation and the legibility of lesbianism’s queerness to reveal the cultural salience of the violent lesbian and the fears and pleasures she evokes. Beyond the Lesbian Vampire is a vital contribution to lesbian studies, horror studies, queer studies, and feminist studies.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781837722884
ISBN-10: 1837722889
Pagini: 288
Ilustrații: 2 color plates, 51 halftones
Dimensiuni: 138 x 216 x 23 mm
Greutate: 0.48 kg
Editura: University of Wales Press
Colecția University of Wales Press
Seria Horror Studies

Notă biografică

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.

Cuprins

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

Recenzii

"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."

"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."