Description
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
