![]() ![]() The documentary focuses more on films from about “Night of the Living Dead” on since these are film most people are familiar with. ![]() That film changed the Hollywood landscape for Black horror and it looks like he will continue to break new ground with his upcoming “Us.” The documentary gets to include Peele and mention of both his films to advance the discussion Coleman started in her book. Coleman wrote her book before Jordan Peele made “Get Out” and made history by being the first African American to win an Academy Award for original screenplay. The Shudder original documentary can’t go into as much depth as the book but it does a fantastic job of tracing this evolution of blacks in horror and the role black filmmakers have played in making those images and stories richer. ![]() That is, they have an added narrative focus that calls attention to racial identity, in this case Blackness-Black culture, history, ideologies, experiences, politics, language, humor, aesthetics, style, music, and the like.” However, Black horror films are often ‘race’ films. ![]() Whereas Black horror films “are informed by many of the same indicators of horror films such as disruptions, monstrosities, and fear. So Blacks in horror presents “Blacks and Blackness in the context of horror, even if the horror film is not wholly or substantially focused on either one,” she wrote. ![]()
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