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Since the release of Jordan Peele's Academy Award-winning horror hit
Get Out (2017), interest in Black horror films has erupted.
The Oxford Handbook of Black Horror Film presents expansive scholarship about Blackness, expanding the ways in which researchers, critics, and fans see and make meaning of Black experiences.
List of contents
- Introduction by Robin R. Means Coleman and Novotny Lawrence
- Chapter 1: Historicized Traumas by Robin R. Means Coleman and Novotny Lawrence
- Chapter 2: Fetishising Caribbean Blackness by G.E. Subero
- Chapter 3: Colonial Terrors by Estefanía Hermosilla
- Chapter 4: Visible Blackness in 21st Century Brazilian Horror Cinema by Mark Harris
- Chapter 5: Getting Out of the American Dream by Mia Mask
- Chapter 6: Horrific Indigeneity by James Wierzbicki
- Chapter 7: Dreaming of Blackness: Horror and Aboriginal Australia in The Last Wave by Adam Lowenstein
- Chapter 8: Zombie Roar by Dominique Shank
- Chapter 9: AfroLatinx Identity in Latin American Horror Cinema by Maillim Santiago
- Chapter 10: Havana's Living Dead by Jennessa Hester
- Chapter 11: The Inauguration of Black Horror by Antonio Quick
- Chapter 12: Sem Medo de Lobisomem by Valeria Villegas Lindvall
- Chapter 13: La Llorona's Blackness by Kristen Leer
- Chapter 14: They Trusted Me Even When I Didn't Particularly Trust Myself: The Complex Black Heroine in Little Monsters by Jamie Alvey
- Chapter 15: Freddie vs Michael by Tiffany A Bryant
- Chapter 16: "Time...Never Stops": The Power of "Sonic Anachronism" in Mischa Green's Lovecraft Country by Rachal Burton and Ayanni Cooper
- Chapter 17: (Re) Summoning Candyman for a Postracial Era by Byron Craig and Stephen Rahko
- Chapter 18: The Allegory of the Tickle Monster by Tessa Adams
- Chapter 19: From Tales from the Hood to Candyman: Teaching Trauma Studies with Black Horror Cinema by Colleen Karn
About the author
Robin R. Means Coleman is Vice President and Associate Provost of Institutional Diversity and Inclusion and the Ida B. Wells and Ferdinand Barnett Professor of Communication Studies at Northwestern University. She is the author of Horror Noire: A History of Black American Horror from the 1890s to Present, 2nd ed.; Horror Noire: Blacks in American Horror Films from the 1890s to Present and African-American Viewers and the Black Situation Comedy: Situating Racial Humor. She is co-author of The Black Guy Dies First: Black Horror from Fodder to Oscar and Intercultural Communication for Everyday Life, editor of Say It Loud! African American Audiences, Media, and Identity, and co-editor of Fight the Power! The Spike Lee Reader.
Novotny Lawrence is the Director of the Black Film Center & Archive and Associate Professor of Cinema and Media Studies at Indiana University. He is the author of Blaxploitation Films of the 1970s: Blackness and Genre, the editor of
Documenting the Black Experience: Essays on African-American History, Culture, and Identity in Non-Fiction Films, the co-editor of Beyond Blaxploitation, and the editor-in-chief of The Journal of Popular Culture.
Summary
Since the release of Jordan Peele's Academy Award-winning horror hit Get Out (2017), interest in Black horror films has erupted. The Oxford Handbook of Black Horror Film presents expansive scholarship about Blackness, expanding the ways in which researchers, critics, and fans see and make meaning of Black experiences.
