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Queer Villains
Why do so many big-screen villains seem to be pointedly camp?
Caspar Salmon decodes a trope seen in films ranging from Psycho, to Skyfall, to several Disney animated classics.
Why do so many big-screen villains seem to be pointedly camp?
Caspar Salmon decodes a trope seen in films ranging from Psycho, to Skyfall, to several Disney animated classics, in which filmmakers (either intentionally or not) used harmful queer stereotypes as a way of making their characters seem more disturbing, unseemly or unheroic.
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