Georgia State University ScholarWorks @ Georgia State University English Theses Department of English 7-17-2009 Where I am, There (Sh)it will be: Queer Presence in Post Modern Horror Films Melanie McDougald Follow this and additional works at: https://scholarworks.gsu.edu/english_theses Part of the English Language and Literature Commons Recommended Citation McDougald, Melanie, "Where I am, There (Sh)it will be: Queer Presence in Post Modern Horror Films." Thesis, Georgia State University, 2009. https://scholarworks.gsu.edu/english_theses/66 This Thesis is brought to you for free and open access by the Department of English at ScholarWorks @ Georgia State University. It has been accepted for inclusion in English Theses by an authorized administrator of ScholarWorks @ Georgia State University. For more information, please contact
[email protected]. WHERE I AM, THERE (SH)IT WILL BE: QUEER PRESENCE IN POST MODERN HORROR FILMS by MELANIE MCDOUGALD Under the Direction of Margaret Mills Harper ABSTRACT This paper will consider the function of queer space and presence in the post modern horror film genre. Beginning with George Romero‟s 1968 film Night of the Living Dead and continuing through to contemporary examples of the genre, the paper posits the function of the queer monster or monstrous as integral to and representative of the genre as a whole. The paper analyzes both the current theory and scholarship of the genre and through Lacanian psychoanalytic theory and queer theory offers a theory of how these theories can add to existing theory