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Queer Ethics, Urban Spaces, and the Horrors of Monogamy in It Follows

By David Church

Book information

Publisher
University of Texas Press
Year
2018
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
351 kB (359686 bytes)
Pages
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Time added
2024-03-02 04:10:03

Description

Through its ironic critique of monogamy as a monstrous force, the horror film It Follows (David Robert Mitchell, 2014) advances, by way of negative example, a queer ethics of open, responsible sexuality—albeit an ethics constrained by the film’s setting in a present-day, neoliberal Detroit increasingly stripped of public services. By examining the film’s ambivalent nostalgia for both a generic and urban past, this essay argues that It Follows’s queer aesthetic achieves its emotional tenor through imaging Detroit’s decrepit (sub)urban spaces as haunted by polyvalent sexualities and socioeconomic inequalities.

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