The Oxford handbook of Black horror film - Means Coleman, Robin R., 1969-; Lawrence, Novotny, 1973- (New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2025)
"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, and 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. Critical attention to Blackness in horror has primarily focused on the United States and the Western world, despite Black stories having featured prominently in the genre-through the work of actors, screenwriters, directors, producers-globally and across cultures. The chapters in this handbook explore global Black horror cinema by interrogating Blackness and the ways it manifests in films across the diaspora and around the world. Chapters pose and answer questions, including, How are taxonomies of race 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 brings to bear the most enlightened reflections upon Black horror's place in the world. 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 this genre in all its rich and empowering possibilities"--
Historicized traumas : Black art in Nia DaCosta's Candyman / Novotny Lawrence and Robin R. Means Coleman -- The politics of black women's identity as monstrous fetishism in early Hollywood horror cinema / G.E. Subero -- Colonial terrors in Trabalhar Cansa and As Boas Maneiras by Juliana Rojas-Marcos Dutra : the negritude as the stain that corrodes it all / Estefanía Hermosilla Órdenes -- Visible Blackness in twenty-first-century Brazilian horror cinema / Mark H. Harris -- Get(ting) out of the American dream/nightmare / Mia Mask -- Horrific indigeneity / James Wierzbicki -- Dreaming of Blackness: horror and aboriginal Australia in the Last wave / Adam Lowenstein -- Zombie roar : show horror, banal supernaturalism, and colonia memory / Dominique Shank -- Afro-Latinx identity in Latin American horror cinema / Maillim Santiago -- Havana's living dead : curation, colonization, and the erasure of an Afro-Cuban horror cinema / Jennessa Hester -- The inauguration of Black horror : Duane Jones's racial revision of Night of the living dead / Tony Quick -- Sem medo de lobisomem : subversion, intimacy, and animality in As Boas Maneiras / Valeria Villegas Lindvall -- La Llorona's Blackness in Latin American horror films of La LLorona (Mexico 1960) and La Llorona (Guatemala, 2019) / Kristen Leer -- "They trusted me even when I didn't particularly trust myself" : the complex Black heroine in Little monsters / Jamie Alvey -- Freddie vs Michael : horros, reality and the spectacle of black surveillance in Halloween: Resurrection / Tiffany A. Bryant -- "Time ... never stops" : the power of "Sonic anachronism" in Misha Green's Lovercraft country / Rachal Burton and Ayanni C.H. Cooper -- (Re)summining Candyman for a "post-racial" era : black horror, allegorical adaptation, and the traumatic racial violence of American capitalism / Byron Craig and Stephen E. Rhako -- The allegory of the tickle monster / Tessa Adams -- From Tales from the hood to Candyman : teaching trauma studies with black horror cinema / Colleen Karn.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Keywords: Horror films -- History and criticism; Black people in motion pictures; African Americans in motion pictures; Race in motion pictures; Films d'horreur -- Histoire et critique; Personnes noires au cinéma; Noirs américains au cinéma; Race au cinéma