Why horror keeps creeping into black drama

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Published on October 15, 2020 11:05:52 AM ● Video Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1cxxdbDrW0c

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Shows such as I May Destroy You, Atlanta and Insecure depict a wide spectrum of black life, from hilarity to mundanity – but all these shows, at times, also have an impending sense of doom.
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This feeling of horror, this looming sense of dread, is intentional, but it plays on the common tropes we've been conditioned to expect. Josh Toussaint-Strauss discusses why audiences expect bad things to happen to black characters and explores how a new generation of black creators are using horror to subvert these negative tropes. 

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Further reading:

Will it destroy us? Why horror always creeps in to black drama ► https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2020/jul/14/i-may-destroy-you-michaela-coel-why-horror-always-creeps-in-to-black-drama

Lanre Bakare ► https://www.theguardian.com/profile/lanre-bakare

Dr Francesca Sobande ► https://www.francescasobande.com/

Awkward Black girls and postfeminist possibilities: representing millennial Black women on television in Chewing Gum and Insecure. Critical Studies in Television, 14(4): 435–450 ► https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/1749602019870298

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Horror Noire ► https://www.shudder.com/movies/watch/horror-noire-a-history-of-black-horror/e650978256281a67

The Sunken Place: Black Horror course ► https://masteryplus.mykajabi.com/the-sunken-place-sales-page

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