TY - BOOK ID - 147674250 TI - Horror noire : blacks in American horror films from the 1890s to present PY - 2011 SN - 1283435292 9786613435293 0203847679 1136942947 PB - New York : Routledge, DB - UniCat KW - Horror films KW - African Americans in motion pictures. KW - Race in motion pictures. KW - History and criticism. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:147674250 AB - From King Kong to Candyman, the boundary-pushing genre of the horror film has always been a site for provocative explorations of race in American popular culture. In Horror Noire: Blacks in American Horror Films from 1890's to Present, Robin R. Means Coleman traces the history of notable characterizations of blackness in horror cinema, and examines key levels of black participation on screen and behind the camera. She argues that horror offers a representational space for black people to challenge the more negative, or racist, images seen in other media outlets, a ER -