{"product_id":"absolute-pleasure-queer-perspectives-on-rocky-horror","title":"Absolute Pleasure: Queer Perspectives on Rocky Horror","description":"\u003cdiv data-a-expander-name=\"book_description_expander\" data-a-expander-collapsed-height=\"280\" class=\"a-expander-collapsed-height a-row a-expander-container a-spacing-base a-expander-partial-collapse-container\" style=\"max-height:280px\"\u003e \u003cdiv data-expanded=\"false\" class=\"a-expander-content a-expander-partial-collapse-content\"\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eQueer writers reflect on the complicated legacy of \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eThe Rocky Horror Picture Show\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eSince its earliest midnight showings at the Waverly Theater in New York City, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eThe Rocky Horror Picture Show\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e has been an underground sensation. For five decades, people around the world have dressed up and gathered in dark theaters to dance, yell, mime obscene acts, and forge connections with other queer people and weirdos.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe film shattered expectations and social norms at the time of its release. But how does its presentation of queerness‚Äînot to mention its portrayals of murder, manipulation, consent violation, and cannibalism‚Äîhold up today? The essays in \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eAbsolute Pleasure\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e‚Äîby queer writers including Sarah Gailey, Grace Lavery, and Magdalene Visaggio‚Äîexplore the film's complicated legacy, along with queer and trans joy, sexuality, family, generational understandings of queerness, and what we do with our problematic faves.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003c\/div\u003eer-toggle=\"{\"allowLinkDefault\":true, \"expand_prompt\":\"Read more\", \"collapse_prompt\":\"Read less\"}\"\u0026gt;\u003ci class=\"a-icon a-icon-extender-expand\"\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-expander-prompt\"\u003eRead more\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e ","brand":"Feminist Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50301836722461,"sku":"9781558613508","price":19.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0901\/5692\/5213\/files\/9781558613508.jpg?v=1756488356","url":"https:\/\/bookdelico.com\/products\/absolute-pleasure-queer-perspectives-on-rocky-horror","provider":"Book Delico ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}