{"product_id":"uncanny-valley-girls-zefyr-lisowski-harper-collins","title":"Uncanny Valley Girls - Zefyr Lisowski - Harper Collins","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eFrom Lambda Award-winning poet Zefyr Lisowski, a sharply personal and expansive memoir-in-essays dedicated to the strange and absurd beauty of horror films, exploring the complications of gender, the insidiousness of class ascension, and the latent violence hidden in our own uncanny reflections.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eThis is how it worked: first I loved them, and then I loved myself\u003c\/span\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAt twenty-seven, poet Zefyr Lisowski found herself in the place she feared most: a locked psych ward. While inside, she turned to horror movies―her deepest, most constant comfort.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eRather than disturb, scary movies have always provided solace and connection for Lisowski, as they do many others―offering a vision of a world filled equally with beauty and pain, and a reason to reach out to others and hold them tight. After all, as Lisowski argues, what terrifies us most about these movies is our own uncanny reflection―and at the root of that fear, a desperate desire to love and be loved.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn these wide-ranging essays, Lisowski weaves theory and memoir into nuanced critiques of films such as \u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eThe Texas Chain Saw Massacre\u003c\/span\u003e and \u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eSaint Maud\u003c\/span\u003e. From fears about sickness and disability, to trans narratives and the predator\/victim complex, to the struggle to live in a world that wants you dead, she explores horror’s reciprocal impact on our culture and―by extension―our lives. Through it all, Lisowski lays bare her own complex biography―spanning from a trans childhood in the South to the sweaty dancefloors of Brooklyn―and the family, friends, and lovers that have bloomed with her into the present.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDeeply felt, blood-spattered, and brimming with care and wonder, \u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eUncanny Valley Girls\u003c\/span\u003e investigates the art of horror―and of the self―with brilliance and wit, blending the two topics seamlessly with essays such as:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul class=\"a-unordered-list a-vertical\"\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-list-item\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e“Ghost Face,\u003c\/span\u003e” exploring the legacy of whiteness in \u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eScream\u003c\/span\u003e from the vantage point of the author’s childhood in coastal North Carolina.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-list-item\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e“War on Terror,”\u003c\/span\u003e outlining how the violence of the Iraq War and its legacy of torture impacted the films of that era, such as \u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eFinal Destination\u003c\/span\u003e, \u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eHouse of Wax\u003c\/span\u003e, and \u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eTuristas\u003c\/span\u003e.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-list-item\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e“Southern Fried,”\u003c\/span\u003e an ode to the author’s beloved \u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eTexas Chain Saw Massacre\u003c\/span\u003e and how the film’s simple beauty and cruelty shaped the author’s relationship with the South.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-list-item\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e“Preliminary Materials for a Theory of the Werewolf Girl,” \u003c\/span\u003ea complication of the werewolf as an inherently masculine form―and of the uneasy distinctions of victim and perpetrator―through the lens of films like \u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eGinger Snaps\u003c\/span\u003e and Angela Carter’s “The Werewolf.”\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-list-item\"\u003eAnd more.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"Frames Etc ","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":62867294126239,"sku":"168506334019","price":15.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0632\/9450\/5119\/files\/IMG_2824.jpg?v=1789680845","url":"https:\/\/www.framesetc.net\/products\/uncanny-valley-girls-zefyr-lisowski-harper-collins","provider":"Frames Etc ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}