Queer failure in Freddy’s Revenge and Scream, Queen! A documentary’s recuperation of Elm Street’s queer memory

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Critical Studies in Media Communication Pub Date : 2023-08-08 DOI:10.1080/15295036.2023.2245437

Ragan Fox

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ABSTRACT In this queer reading of the 1985 horror sequel Freddy’s Revenge, I use Halberstam’s theory of queer failure to interrogate cultural mechanisms that validate and invalidate a film’s memory. The 2019 documentary Scream, Queen! guides my queer celebration of Freddy’s Revenge. The movies converge to create profound, low theoretical insights into queer desire at the apex of the AIDS pandemic. The essay challenges heteronormative impulses commonly used to frame a media artifact as significant and successful enough to merit investigation.

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《弗雷迪的复仇》和《尖叫吧，女王!》一部关于榆树街怪诞记忆的纪录片

在这篇对1985年恐怖片续集《弗雷迪的复仇》的酷儿解读中，我用哈伯斯坦关于酷儿失败的理论来质疑那些证实和否定电影记忆的文化机制。2019年的纪录片《尖叫，女王!》指引着我对弗雷迪复仇的奇异庆祝。这些电影汇聚在一起，对艾滋病流行高峰期的酷儿欲望进行了深刻的、低理论的洞察。这篇文章挑战了通常用于将媒体工件定义为重要和成功的足以值得调查的异规范冲动。

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期刊介绍： Critical Studies in Media Communication (CSMC) is a peer-reviewed publication of the National Communication Association. CSMC publishes original scholarship in mediated and mass communication from a cultural studies and/or critical perspective. It particularly welcomes submissions that enrich debates among various critical traditions, methodological and analytical approaches, and theoretical standpoints. CSMC takes an inclusive view of media and welcomes scholarship on topics such as • media audiences • representations • institutions • digital technologies • social media • gaming • professional practices and ethics • production studies • media history • political economy. CSMC publishes scholarship about media audiences, representations, institutions, technologies, and professional practices. It includes work in history, political economy, critical philosophy, race and feminist theorizing, rhetorical and media criticism, and literary theory. It takes an inclusive view of media, including newspapers, magazines and other forms of print, cable, radio, television, film, and new media technologies such as the Internet.