BTS GLAM 210 Subject Guide by Novie Hartman (2025)

DEAD QUEERS: One Legacy of the Trope of "Mind Over Matter" in the Films by Christine Ramsay is an essay that discusses queer body horror and the content of the films. IT utilizes notable works of David Cronenberg such as: Videodrome, eXistenZ, Crash, and Dead Ringers. There is also a critique of the use of the burry your gays trop prevalent as well as the use of body horror used on regards to the queer experience in the films above.
Christine Ramsay graduated from Carleton University and York University. She has published notable works such as: Overlooking Saskatchewan: Minding the Gap University of with Randal Rogers and David Cronenberg and the Double. She is also on the board of Imaginations: Journal of Cross-Cultural Image Studies and Topia: Canadian Journal of Cultural Studies.

Queer failure in Freddy’s Revenge and Scream, Queen! A documentary’s recuperation of Elm Street’s queer memory by Ragan Fox is an article discussing a queer perspective on Freddy’s Revenge. This article discusses the 2019 documentary Scream, Queen! and Freddy’s Revenge the 1985 sequel to Nightmare on Elm Street. It also critiques Halberstam theory of queer failure to interrogate cultural mechanism regarding specifically film.
Ragan Fox graduated from the University of Texas in Austin and Arizona State University. Dr. Fox is a professor in the Department of Communication at California State University. He has published other notable works such as, Inside Reality TV: Producing Race, Gender, and Sexuality on “Big Brother' in 2018, Heterophobia in 2004, and Exile in Gayville in 2009.

"That magic box lies": queer theory, seriality, and American Horror Story by Theresa L. Geller and Anna Marie Banker is a critique of American Horror Story’s uses of queer identity. American Horror Story produced by FX primered in 2011 and is an anthology that showcases new settings and characters set in the same universe every new season. This article discusses the third season of the show “Coven” and its use of the queer community more broadly as a mode of horror.
Theresa L. Geller is a film theorist who graduated from University of California at Santa Cruz, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and Rutgers University. She also has connections to Beatrice Bain Research Group at the University of Berkeley California, Wayne State University Press, and she was a professor at Grinnell College. Her research focuses on film history and queer theory among others. Anna Marie Banker is working on her PhD in comparative literature at New York University.