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  • Queer Spectralities and Untimely Subjects: Queer Ghost Hunters and Paranormal Reality Television

    05/27/2024 7:50:07 AM PDT · by Angelino97 · 29 replies
    Canadian Journal of Film Studies ^ | Fall 2019 | Kevin Chabot
    Queer Ghost Hunters (Stu Maddux, 2016-) in an independently-produced YouTube web series in which queer paranormal investigators set out to contact queer ghosts of the past. The show stages an intervention within the paranormal reality television genre, critiquing the lack of queer content in popular shows such as Ghost Hunters. Despite the routine investigations of prisons and mental asylums, sites that have historically functioned to oppress queer people, queer ghosts are not sought after in mainstream pa­ranormal reality TV, thereby rendering queer history and injustice invisible. Queer Ghost Hunters aims to rectify this invisibility by attempting to contact queer ghosts...