Horror and Indigeneity : Literature, Film, and Television.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Leeder, Murray.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Indigenous peoples in motion pictures.

Indians in literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (356 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Austin : University of Texas Press, 2026.

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Cover

Half Title

Title

Copyright

Contents

Illustrations

Introduction

Chapter 1: Toward an Indigenous Monster Theory: Un/settling Creatures and Decolonizing Horror

Chapter 2: The Monsters are Real: Indigenous Horror and Historical Trauma

Chapter 3: Night of the Living Indian

Chapter 4: Physical Antiquities: Indigeneity in Classical Horror Films

Chapter 5: Indigenous Rights in 1970s and 1980s Eco-Horror: Rethinking the Survival Space, from Rural to Urban

Chapter 6: We had a Mutant Bear Problem: The Image of Native Americans in John Frankenheimer's Prophecy

Chapter 7: For Fear of the Other: Simulation of Native American Presence in Horror Fiction

Chapter 8: Savage Appetites: Cannibalistic Colonialism and the Windigo

Chapter 9: The Yahima Controversy and Antiracism in HBO's Lovecraft Country

Chapter 10: Pow Wow Tapes and the Zombie Outbreak: Survivance in The Dead Can't Dance

Chapter 11: Blood on the Land: Jeff Barnaby's Indigenous Horror

Chapter 12: Spirits as Relatives in Eden Robinson's Monkey Beach and Jessica Johns's Bad Cree

Chapter 13: "It Came from the Rez": Slasher Ecologies in Stephen Graham Jones's The Only Good Indians

Chapter 14: Beautiful Monsters: A Conversation with Stephen Graham Jones

Chapter 15: A Conversation with Theo Jean Cuthand

Acknowledgments

Contributors

Index.

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ISBN:

1-4773-3414-9

1-4773-3415-7

OCLC:

1591750318