Animation · LGBT & Queer · Memoir
Filmography of the Closet: Coming Out through The Little Mermaid
As a child, singing the Ariel aahs was synonymous for me with being or becoming Ariel. More than looking like her, dressing like her, acting like her – all of[…]


Peter Marra earned his PhD in English with a concentration in Film & Media Studies from Wayne State University in Detroit, Michigan. His dissertation, Queer Slashers, argues the queer lineage and queer function of the U.S. slasher film. His work has appeared in Film Criticism and in the edited collections Recovering 1940s Horror Cinema: Traces of a Lost Decade (Lexington Books, 2015) and ReFocus: The Films of William Castle (Edinburgh UP, 2018).





