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Zusatztext "Slavery's brutality. The Violence that birthed a nation. Our own modern-day "birther' movement. Without question! Blacks! blackness and black identity is inextricably linked with horror. Means-Coleman plunders a natural! yet untapped source: the horror film. The result is a treasure trove of insight into how racial performance! racialized narratives! as well as challenges to prevailing racial discourse permeate American life. Means-Coleman builds her case for the historical and contemporary significance of horror films not only by astutely choosing the most exemplary among them! but by presenting her analysis in a vivid and powerful historical trajectory where 20th century media and 21st century technology set the stage for new debates about the future of race and Blackness in the global public sphere."-- Charlton McIlwain! Associate Professor of Media! Culture! and Communication! NYU"This book is gold. I thought I was a horror head! but she goes so deep into it! just speaking my language. Everything she says I'm just like! 'Yes... that's exactly what I always thought.' It's so nice to find a scholarly book that addresses what your friends have been talking about for years and just breaks it down." -Tananarive Due! University of California! Los Angeles! in "How Get Out Inspired a New College Course on Racism and Horror" Informationen zum Autor Robin R. Means Coleman is Associate Professor in the Department of Communication Studies and in the Center for AfroAmerican and African Studies at the University of Michigan. Her previous books include African Americans and the Black Situation Comedy: Situating Racial Humor and the edited collection Say It Loud! African Americans! Media and Identity! both published by Routledge! and most recently the co-edited volume Fight the Power! The Spike Lee Reader. Klappentext From King Kong to Candyman , the boundary-pushing genre of the horror film has always been a site for provocative explorations of race in American popular culture. Horror Noire presents a critical history of blackness and American horror, from early cinema to the present. Robin R. Means Coleman traces the history of notable characterizations of blackness in horror cinema, examines key levels of black paricipation on screen and behind the camera, and unpacks the genre¿s racialized imagery and narratives that make up popular culture¿s commentary on race. Horror, the author argues, offers a unique representational space for black people to challenge more ¿negative¿ or racist images as seen in other media forms and formats, and to portray greater diversity within blackness. Horror Noire considers prominent themes of black horror films including sexuality, religion, majority/minority power relationships, space (e.g., the ¿hood or the diaspora), time, slavery, police brutality, poverty, illegal drugs, war, and the role of comedy and satire. Offering a comprehensive chronological survey of the genre, Horror Noire addresses the full range of black horror film, including mainstream Hollywood fare, as well as art-house films, Blaxploitation films, direct-to-DVD films, and the emerging U.S./hip-hop culture-inspired Nigerian "Nollywood" Black horror films. Horror Noire presents a unique social history of blacks in America through changing images in horror films. It is essential reading for anyone seeking to understand how fears and anxieties about race and race relations are made manifest, and often challenged, on the silver screen. Zusammenfassung From King Kong to Candyman , the boundary-pushing genre of the horror film has always been a site for provocative explorations of race in American popular culture. In Horror Noire: Blacks in American Horror Films from 1890's to Present , Robin R. Means Coleman traces the history of notable characterizations of blackness in horror cinema, and examines key levels of black participation on screen and...
