Absolute Pleasure

Queer Perspectives on Rocky Horror
Herausgeber: Atwell, Margot

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

A Literary Hub Notable Small Press Book of 2025 Queer writers reflect on the complicated legacy of The Rocky Horror Picture Show. Since its earliest midnight showings at the Waverly Theater in New York City, The Rocky Horror Picture Show has been an underground sensation. For five decades, people around the world have dressed up and gathered in dark theaters to dance, yell, mime obscene acts, and forge connections with other queer people and weirdos. The film shattered expectations and social norms at the time of its release. But how does its presentation of queerness—not to mention its portrayals of murder, manipulation, consent violation, and cannibalism—hold up today? The essays in Absolute Pleasure—by queer writers including Sarah Gailey, Grace Lavery, and Magdalene Visaggio—explore the film's complicated legacy, along with queer and trans joy, sexuality, family, generational understandings of queerness, and what we do with our problematic faves.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Feminist Press at The City University of New York
• Seitenzahl: 328
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. September 2025
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 226mm x 148mm x 26mm
• Gewicht: 500g
• ISBN-13: 9781558613508
• ISBN-10: 1558613501
• Artikelnr.: 72692480

Inhaltsangabe

* Foreword by Carmen Maria Machado (Iowa City, IA)
* “Introduction” by Margot Atwell (Brooklyn, NY)
* “There’s a Light: The Queer Chaos and Magic of The Rocky Horror
Picture Show” by Jane Claire Bradley (Manchester, UK)
* “Going Home: Found Family and The Rocky Horror Picture Show” by
Margot Atwell (Brooklyn, NY)
* “Tinted” by Rosie Long Decter (Montreal, Canada)
* “Asexuality in Transylvania” by Genevieve Hammang (San Diego, CA)
* “Time Slip: Rewinding Rocky Horror” by Mel King (Brooklyn, NY)
* “Midnight Picture Show” by Heather O. Petrocelli (Astoria, OR)
* “A Rather Tender Subject” by Trey Burnette (Palm Springs, CA)
* “Brief Encounters with Dr. Frank-N-Furter” by A. Ng Pavel (吳慧靈)
(Chicago, IL)
* “On the Queer Morality of Rocky Horror: Or How a Teenager Found Out
Her Mom Was in the Original Shadow Cast” by Holly Joy Wertman
(Brooklyn, NY)
* “Calling All Aliens” by Lindsay Katt (New York, NY)
* “Outgrowing a Cinnamon Role” by Victoria Provost (New York, NY)
* “Meeting My Mom at the Frankenstein Place” by Birch Rosen (Seattle,
WA)
* “A Wild and Untamed Thing: How Performing in a RHPS Shadow Cast
Helped Me Discover My Bodily Autonomy” by Aliya Bree Hall (Portland,
OR)
* “Becoming a Regular Frankie Fan” by Roxy Ruedas (New York, NY)
* “Rocky Horror and the Performance Cults of Flloyd” by Flloyd (New
York, NY)
* “Who Lives in the Old Dark House? ” by Benjamin Larned (Pasadena, CA)
* “To Find the Truth I’ve Even Lied: Self-Deception and Liberation in
The Rocky Horror Picture Show” by Magdalene Visaggio
(New York, NY)
* “The Sound of Home in Daydream” by Rocky Halpern (Ridgewood, NY)
* “My Words to Dr. Frank-N-Furter” by Grace Lavery (Brooklyn, NY)
* “Double Feature” by Tanya Marquardt (Brooklyn, NY)
* “Three Ways” by Dave Madden (San Francisco, CA)
* “To Absent Friends: AIDS and the Rocky Horror Community” by Akira
Albar-Kluck (Dublin, Ireland)
* “A Light in the Darkness: Coming Home” by Juniper Fitzgerald (Omaha,
NE)
* “Sweet Transgression” by Sarah Gailey (California)
* “This Town Is Neutered: Queer Longing in the Far North” by M. K.
Thekkumkattil (Anchorage, AK)
* “One from the Vaults” by Nino McQuown (Baltimore, MD)