FEATURE INTERVIEW: REVOLTING CHILD BOOK
On October 29 2015, Dr. Scahill was featured in a five-page interview in Metro Weekly, DC's gay and lesbian newspaper. In the piece "Scary Movies: Gays Have a Special Dark Place in the Horror Canon," Dr. Scahill discussed his new book, the horror genre, The Exorcist Steps, and the unique relationship that gays and lesbians have to the genre of taboo-breaking and social upheaval. #interview #revoltingchild #book #feature #scarymovies #metroweekly #horror #queer #childhood #exo
NEW BOOK: THE REVOLTING CHILD
Dr. Scahill's book The Revolting Child in Horror Cinema: Youth Rebellion and Queer Spectatorship was released today from Palgrave Macmillan. Scahill argues that the “revolting child”—whose forms include the child with a dark secret (The Bad Seed), the child who transforms into a monster in adolescence (The Exorcist), or the child who forms a cabal of outcasts (Village of the Damned)—functions as a potent metaphor for queer youth. Drawing together film theory, queer theory, ch
