Kevin Wynter, “The Final Brother: On Horror and Black Survivability” (11 10 2021) from 2021 horror shows Watch Video
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⏲ Duration: 48 min 69 sec ✓ Published: 09-Feb-2022
Description: Do Black people always die first in horror movies? Is it possible to be Black and successfully survive a horror film? This talk examines the status of Black representations in the horror genre from Blaxploitation cinema to the horror parodies of the late 90s/early 2000s to argue that Blackness in the cultural imaginary is categorically comprehensible only when situated within inflexible and highly restricted narrative positions. Building from Carol Clover’s influential work on the slasher film
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