Harry M. Benshoff

Previous Scheduled Teaching

Published Intellectual Contributions

Book

• Benshoff. (2014). The Companion to the Horror Film.
• Benshoff, H.M. (2011). Dark Shadows ..
• Sean Griffin. (2006). Queer Images: A History of Gay and Lesbian Film in America..
• Sean Griffin. (2004). Queer Cinema: The Film Reader..
• Benshoff, H.M. (1997). Monsters in the Closet: Homosexuality and the Horror Film..

Book Chapter

• Benshoff, H.M. (2024). "Angel, Angel, Down We Go (1968)". Screening American Cinema. Oxfordshire, Taylor & Francis/Routledge.
• Benshoff, H.M. (2019). Blaxploitation Filmmaking. A Companion to the Cult Film. NYC, NY, Routledge.
• Benshoff. (2014). "Introduction" and "Horror Before the Horror Film".
• Travis Sutton. (2011). "'Forever Family' Values: Twilight (2008) and the Modern Mormon Vampire," in Horror After 9/11, eds. Aviva Briefel and Sam J. Miller. Co-author with Travis Sutton (former RTVF graduate student), forthcoming Texas UP, 2010..
• Benshoff, H.M. (2011). "'Way Too Gay to be Ignored': Queer Horror in the 21st Century," in Teratologies, eds. Kay Picart and John Browning..
• Benshoff, H.M. (2010). " Gus Van Sant," in Fifty Contemporary Filmmakers, ed. Yvonne Tasker. .
• Benshoff, H.M. (2009). "(Broke)back to the Mainstream: Queer Theory and Queer Cinemas Today," in Film Theory and Contemporary Hollywood Movies, ed. Warren Buckland. New York: Routledge, 2009. Pp. 192-213..
• Benshoff, H.M. (2009). "A Straight Cowboy Movie: Heterosexuality According to Brokeback Mountain," in Hetero, ed. Sean Griffin..
• Benshoff, H.M. (2008). "1966: Movies and Camp," in Screen Decades: The Sixties, ed. Barry Keith Grant..
• Benshoff, H.M. (2008). "Beyond the Valley of the Classical Hollywood Cinema: Rethinking the Loathsome Film of 1970," in The Shifting Definitions of Genre, eds. Lincoln Geraghty and Marc Jancovich..
• Benshoff, H.M. (2008). "Blaxploitation Horror Films: Generic Reappropriation or Reinscription," in The Cult Film Reader, ed. by Ernest Mathijs and Xavier Mendik..
• Benshoff, H.M. (2008). "Queers and Families in Film: From Problems to Parents" in A Family Affair, ed. Murray Pomerance..
• Benshoff, H.M. (2007). "Representing (Repressed) Homosexuality in the Pre-Stonewall Hollywood Homo-Military Film," in Sleaze Artists: Cinema at the Margins of Taste, Style, and Politics, ed. Jeff Sconce..
• Benshoff, H.M. (2004). "Reception of a Queer Mainstream Film ," in New Queer Cinema: A Critical Reader, ed. Michele Aaron..
• Benshoff, H.M. (2004). "The Monster and the Homosexual," in Queer Cinema: The Film Reader, eds. Harry Benshoff and Sean Griffin./Reprint.
• Benshoff, H.M. (2002). "The Monster and the Homosexual," in Horror: The Film Reader, ed. Mark Jancovich. /Reprint.
• Benshoff, H.M. (2001). "Horror Movies," and "TV Westerns," in Boyhood in America: An Encyclopedia..
• Benshoff, H.M. (1998). "Secrets, Closets, and Corridors Through Time: Negotiating Sexuality and Gender in Dark Shadows Fan Culture," in Theorizing Fandom: Fans, Subcultures, and Identity, ed. Cheryl Harris and Alison Alexander..
• Benshoff, H.M. (1997). "Dark Shadows" and "Pee Wee's Playhouse," in The Museum of Broadcast Communication Encyclopedia of Television, ed. Horace Newcomb..
• Benshoff, H.M. (1993). Compilation of "Bibliography" and "Filmography," for Theorizing Documentary, ed. Michael Renov..

Book Review

• Benshoff, H.M. (2018). Book Review of "Clive Barker: Dark Imaginer". Gothic Studies. Manchester, Manchester University Press.
• Benshoff. (2014). Horror Noire: Blacks in American Horror Films from the 1890s to Present by Robin R. Means Coleman.
• Benshoff, H.M. (2004). "Richard Dyer's Now You See It and The Matter of Images,".
• Benshoff, H.M. (2003). "Experimental Cinema: The Film Reader, ed. by Wheeler Winston Dixon,".
• Benshoff, H.M. (2003). "Peter Hutchings's Terence Fisher,".
• Benshoff, H.M. (2001). "Alexander Doty's Flaming Classics,".

Journal Article

• Benshoff, H.M. (2008). "Brokering Brokeback Mountain: A Local Reception Study." .
• Benshoff, H.M. (2000). "Blaxploitation Horror Films: Generic Reappropriation or Reinscription?".
• Benshoff, H.M. (1992). "Heigh-Ho, Heigh-Ho, Is Disney High or Low? From Silly Cartoons to Postmodern Politics,".

Magazine/Trade Publication

• Benshoff, H.M. (1993). "Excess.".
• Benshoff, H.M. (1993). "Resurrection of the Vampire: Dark Shadows and Fan Culture,".
• Benshoff, H.M. (1990). "Homoerotic Iconography and Anti-Catholic Marxism: Proto-Feminist Discourse in Sergei M. Eisenstein's QUE VIVA MEXICO,".

Personal Essay

• Benshoff, H.M. (2008). "Vincent Price and Me: Imagining the Queer Male Diva,".

Popular Press Article

• Benshoff, H.M. (2009). "Milk and Gay Political History." Jump Cut 51 (Spring 2009) www.ejumpcut.org/home..
• Benshoff, H.M. (2001). "MARS ATTACKS and INDEPENDENCE DAY," Film Review.

Reprinted Article

• Benshoff, H.M. (2020). The Monster and the Homosexual. chapter in The Monster Theory Reader, ed. Jeffrey A. Weinstock. University of Minnesota Press.
• Benshoff, H.M., Samer, R., Whittington, B. (2017). Resurrection of the Vampire and the Creation of Alternative Life: An Introduction to Dark Shadows Fan Culture. Gender, Sexuality, and Media: Audiences and Spectatorship. Austin TX, University of Texas Press.
• Barry K. Grant, editor. (2015). "The Monster and the Homosexual". Austin, TX, University of Texas Press.

Scholarly Note

• eds. Markus P. J. Bohlmann and Sean Moreland. (2015). Afterword. Monstrous Children and Childish Monsters: Essays on Holy Terrors. Jefferson, NC, McFarland & Co., Inc..

Textbook

• Benshoff, H.M. (2024). Film and Television Analysis: An Introduction (Second Edition).
• Benshoff, H.M. (2021). America on Film: Representing Race, Class, Gender, and Sexuality at the Movies, Third Edition..
• Benshoff. (2015). An Introduction to Film and Television Analysis: Theories, Methods, and Approaches.
• Sean Griffin. (2009). America on Film: Representing Race, Class, Gender, and Sexuality at the Movies , Second Edition..
• Sean Griffin. (2004). America on Film: Representing Race, Class, Gender, and Sexuality at the Movies ..