The Oxford Handbook of Black Horror Film
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP USA
- Date of Publication 23 May 2025
- ISBN 9780197624807
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages416 pages
- Size 252x181x38 mm
- Weight 776 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 58 b&w halftones 664
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Short description:
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.
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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. This renewed intrigue in stories about Black life, history, culture, or "Blackness" has taken two forms. First, the history and politics of race have been centered in the horror genre. Second, Black horror has become an increasingly visible topic in mainstream discourses with scholars, critics, and fans contending that Black horror is seeing its so-called renaissance. However, critical attention to Blackness in horror has primarily focused on the U.S. and western world, despite Black stories having featured prominently in the genre-as actors, screenwriters, directors, producers-globally and across cultures.
The essays in this handbook explore global Black horror cinema by interrogating Blackness and the ways in which it manifests in films across the diaspora and around the world. Chapters pose and answer questions including how taxonomies of race are presented; who is considered "Black?"; how is Blackness constructed in the culture in which it is produced and/or distributed?; How is horror defined and represented globally and/or culturally?; and what textual role does Blackness play in horror?
Sophisticated, innovative, argument-driven research that brings to bear the most enlightened reflections upon Black horror's place in the world drives this handbook. Significantly, 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. In this volume, leading scholars from around the world contribute provocative, worthy examinations of the popular genre of horror in all its rich and empowering possibility.
Table 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 & 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
