Andrew Scahill
Biographic Data
| ID | 6644344 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Andrew Scahill |
| GIVEN NAMES | Andrew |
| FAMILY NAME | Scahill |
| SIGNATURE | SCAHILL A |
| AFFILIATIONS | George Mason University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 4 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Fanfic’ing Film
Fairy Tales Film Festival 2018, Calgary Queer Arts Society, Youth Queer Media Program For the study of youth in cinema, we, as scholars, must always remind ourselves that most images we analyze are created by adults representing youth, not by youth representing themselves. As such, they represent an idea of youth—a memory, a trauma, a wish. They are stories these adults tell themselves about what they need youth to be in that moment. Coming out b…
The Revolting Child in Horror Cinema
The monstrous child is the allegorical queer child in various formations of horror cinema: the child with a secret, the child 'possessed' by Otherness, the changeling child, the terrible gang. This bo
Revolting Child in Horror Cinema
Wonderful, Heavenly, Beautiful, and Ours”
Peter Jackson's Heavenly Creatures (1994) is the story of two girls in New Zealand who form an intense erotic friendship based on a fantasy world they create, and how their forced separation leads them to commit matricide. Beneath the sensational surface, though, is another story: this is a film about cinema, about desire, and how queer spectators create new and unexpected meanings. This article argues that Heavenly Creatures is a queer love lett…
Fanfic’ing Film
Fairy Tales Film Festival 2018, Calgary Queer Arts Society, Youth Queer Media Program For the study of youth in cinema, we, as scholars, must always remind ourselves that most images we analyze are created by adults representing youth, not by youth representing themselves. As such, they represent an idea of youth—a memory, a trauma, a wish. They are stories these adults tell themselves about what they need youth to be in that moment. Coming out b…
Wonderful, Heavenly, Beautiful, and Ours”
Peter Jackson's Heavenly Creatures (1994) is the story of two girls in New Zealand who form an intense erotic friendship based on a fantasy world they create, and how their forced separation leads them to commit matricide. Beneath the sensational surface, though, is another story: this is a film about cinema, about desire, and how queer spectators create new and unexpected meanings. This article argues that Heavenly Creatures is a queer love lett…
The Revolting Child in Horror Cinema
The monstrous child is the allegorical queer child in various formations of horror cinema: the child with a secret, the child 'possessed' by Otherness, the changeling child, the terrible gang. This bo
Revolting Child in Horror Cinema
Fanfic’ing Film
Fairy Tales Film Festival 2018, Calgary Queer Arts Society, Youth Queer Media Program For the study of youth in cinema, we, as scholars, must always remind ourselves that most images we analyze are created by adults representing youth, not by youth representing themselves. As such, they represent an idea of youth—a memory, a trauma, a wish. They are stories these adults tell themselves about what they need youth to be in that moment. Coming out b…
Art (3 works) · Cinema and Media Studies (3 works) · Literature (3 works) · Movie theater (3 works) · Psychology (3 works) · Queer (3 works) · Gender Studies (2 works) · Gender Studies (2 works) · Gender, Feminism, and Media (2 works) · Narrative (2 works)