- Film studies,
- Horror films,
- Environmental justice,
- Social justice,
- Racial justice,
- Decolonization,
- Settler colonialism,
- Hegemony,
- Patriarchy,
- Anti-racism,
- Race discrimination,
- Indigenous peoples -- Study and teaching,
- African Americans -- Study and teaching
This article examines the triangulation of whiteness, Blackness, and Indigeneity in the ‘creature feature’ sf-horror film Prophecy (Frankenheimer US 1979), arguing that the film’s renderings of environmental racism ultimately function to justify white supremacist hetero-patriarchal maintenance and surveillance of Black and Indigenous lands and bodies. A close examination of Prophecy’s representational and ideological shortfalls – in particular its renderings of Black and Indigenous maternity – reveals troubling entanglements between settler-colonial logics of geography, ecology, monstrosity, and subjectivity.
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The final version, © Liverpool University Press, is available on the publisher's website: https://doi.org/10.3828/sfftv.2021.23