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Volume 13, Issue 3
  • ISSN: 2042-1869
  • E-ISSN: 2042-1877

Abstract

This article explores the slowly changing representation of African Americans in horror films. (1997), (2007), and (2017) are used as case studies to illustrate what little progression has taken place through the decades in relationship to African Americans on-screen in horror cinema. Topics such as stereotypical tropes, narrative conventions, themes of dehumanization, and racial oppression are investigated across each film to highlight representational similarities and differences through time.

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