Talk: May Santiago - Queer Authorship, Spectatorship, Gaze, and Sensibility

Friday 4th February / 16:00 / City Kino Wedding Conference Room

 

In “Queer Authorship, Spectatorship, Gaze, & Sensibility in Horror,” May Santiago examines the use of queer bodies in horror films, specifically in how horror films differ in context when the author (director and/or writer) is queer or non-queer. She will also track how the use of queer bodies and queerness has been used in horror films -- from The Old Dark House (1932) to Knife+Heart (2017). Finally, she will propose the idea of a queer sensibility, where queer authors in the horror genre infuse their films that star non-queer leads with a certain brand of queerness.

May Santiago is a film scholar and cultural theorist. Her work focuses on using cinema as a cultural studies tool for underdeveloped film economies in the Caribbean. She has contributed work to MAI: Feminism & Visual Culture and Film Criticism. May currently runs a foreign-horror based podcast she hosts and writes, Horrorspiria, and is working on a queer horror zine with two other queer women horror scholars out in summer 2022. She is pursuing a PhD at George Mason University's Cultural Studies program with a focus on Puerto Rico and the question of its national cinema.

 

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