15 - Tina...!!! A Nightmare on Elm Street

Ghosts Were People Too · Jul 7, 2025 · 2h 13m

Dreams, collective trauma, stranger danger, groomer panic, queer death drive/queer evil, and media horror - it's all lurking below the surface in A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984).

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Bibliography

Edelman, Lee. No Future: Queer Theory and the Death Drive. Duke University Press, 2004.

Kendrick, James. “Razors in the Dreamscape: Revisiting A Nightmare on Elm Street and the Slasher Film.” Cinema Journal, vol. 50, no. 1, Fall 2010, pp. 60-78.

Lieberman, Tucker. “The Trail of His Flames.” The American Reader, vol. 5, no. 1, Fall…