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Horror and Indigeneity

Name: Horror and Indigeneity
Brand: UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS PRESS
SKU: 9781477334133
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UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS PRESSISBN: 9781477334133

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Edited by Murray Leeder, Gary D. Rhodes
Imprint: UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS PRESS
Release Date: October 12, 2026
Format: HARDBACK
Dimensions: 229 x 152 mm
Weight: 450 g
Pages: 312

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A collection of essays about Indigeneity and horror in cinema, literature, and beyond. How did Indigeneity come to be horrifying? Think of the "Indian burial ground" trope, a staple of 1970s horror cinema, not to mention decades of western films and fictions that made "savage Indians" the face of fear in popular culture. Can horror do something else in the hands of Indegnous people? Creators such as Eden Robinson and Jeff Barnaby have self-consciously turned to horror to tell new kinds of stories, stories that question who is a monster and what constitutes the monstrous. Horror and Indigeneity explores representations of Indigenous people in settler horror texts and in the growing corpus of horror by Indigenous writers and filmmakers. Widely spanning time periods and media, the contributors to this edited volume address themes such as cannibalism, eco-horror, historical trauma, and contemporary anti-racism as they relate to classical horror cinema and recent works such as The Dead Can't Dance, Lovecraft Country, and Stephen Graham Jones's The Only Good Indians. Also featuring interviews with Jones and director T. J. Cuthand, Horror and Indigeneity rethinks the terror of the Other in potent and provactive terms.

Murray Leeder is an assistant lecturer in film and English at the University of Alberta. He is the author of Horror Film: A Critical Introduction and The Modern Supernatural and the Beginnings of Cinema. Gary D. Rhodes is a professor of media production at Oklahoma Baptist University, a filmmaker. and a poet. He is the author of Vampires in Silent Cinema and coeditor of Film by Design: The Art of the Movie Poster.

List of Illustrations Introduction (Murray Leeder and Gary D. Rhodes) Chapter 1. Toward an Indigenous Monster Theory: Un/settling Creatures and Decolonizing Horror (Anne Mai Yee Jansen) Chapter 2. The Monsters Are Real: Indigenous Horror and Historical Trauma (Andrew Fisher) Chapter 3. Night of the Living Indian (Gary D. Rhodes) Chapter 4. Physical Antiquities: Indigeneity in Classical Horror Films (Murray Leeder) Chapter 5. Indigenous Rights in 1970s and 1980s Eco-Horror: Rethinking the Survival Space, from Rural to Urban (Brooke Cameron and Alyce Soulodre) Chapter 6. We Had a Mutant Bear Problem: The Image of Native Americans in John Frankenheimer's Prophecy (Robert Guffey) Chapter 7. For Fear of the Other: Simulation of Native American Presence in Horror Fiction (Weronika Laszkiewicz) Chapter 8. Savage Appetites: Cannibalistic Colonialism and the Windigo (K. Hadley) Chapter 9. The Yahima Controversy and Antiracism in HBO's Lovecraft Country (Michael Truscello) Chapter 10. Pow Wow Tapes and the Zombie Outbreak: Survivance in The Dead Can't Dance (Jacob Floyd) Chapter 11. Blood on the Land: Jeff Barnaby's Indigenous Horror (Darrell Varga) Chapter 12. Spirits as Relatives in Eden Robinson's Monkey Beach and Jessica Johns's Bad Cree (June Scudeler) Chapter 13. "It Came from the Rez": Slasher Ecologies in Stephen Graham Jones's The Only Good Indians (Eric Gary Anderson) Chapter 14. Beautiful Monsters: A Conversation with Stephen Graham Jones (Nicole Ku?uleinapuananioliko?awapuhimelemeleolani Furtado) Chapter 15. A Conversation with Theo Jean Cuthand (Ariel Smith) Acknowledgments Contributors Index

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