University of Louisville ThinkIR: The University of Louisville's Institutional Repository Electronic Theses and Dissertations 8-2010 Queer tension : Le Teuer inside me. Nicholas Ryan Wood 1986- University of Louisville Follow this and additional works at: https://ir.library.louisville.edu/etd Recommended Citation Wood, Nicholas Ryan 1986-, "Queer tension : Le Teuer inside me." (2010). Electronic Theses and Dissertations. Paper 1587. https://doi.org/10.18297/etd/1587 This Master's Thesis is brought to you for free and open access by ThinkIR: The University of Louisville's Institutional Repository. It has been accepted for inclusion in Electronic Theses and Dissertations by an authorized administrator of ThinkIR: The University of Louisville's Institutional Repository. This title appears here courtesy of the author, who has retained all other copyrights. For more information, please contact
[email protected]. QUEER TENSION: LE TEUER INSIDE ME By Nicholas Ryan Wood B.A., Centre College, 2004 A Thesis Submitted to the Faculty of the College of Arts and Sciences of the University of Louisville in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Master of Arts Department of English University of Louisville Louisville, Kentucky August 2010 Copyright 2010 by Nicholas Ryan Wood All rights reserved QUEER TENSION: LE TEUER INSIDE ME By Nicholas Ryan Wood B.A., Centre College, 2010 A Thesis Approved on August 2, 2010 by the following Thesis Committee: TheSis Director ii ABSTRACT QUEER TENSION: LE TEUER INSIDE ME Nicholas Ryan Wood August 2, 2010 The film High Tension (2005) is a complex and powerfully threatening portrait of queer monstrosity and negativity.