{"id":32995,"date":"2025-10-02T09:08:46","date_gmt":"2025-10-02T13:08:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/socanth\/?p=32995"},"modified":"2025-10-02T09:13:23","modified_gmt":"2025-10-02T13:13:23","slug":"dr-laura-hall-publishes-new-book-bloodied-bodies-bloody-landscapes-settler-colonialism-in-horror","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/socanth\/2025\/dr-laura-hall-publishes-new-book-bloodied-bodies-bloody-landscapes-settler-colonialism-in-horror\/","title":{"rendered":"Dr. Laura Hall Publishes New Book “Bloodied Bodies, Bloody Landscapes: Settler Colonialism in Horror”"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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\n Dr. Laura Hall Publishes New Book “Bloodied Bodies, Bloody Landscapes: Settler Colonialism in Horror”\n <\/h1>\n \n \n <\/header>\n\n <\/div>\n\n <\/div>\n\n <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n\n\n

Congratulations to Dr. Laura Hall<\/a>, Associate Professor of Sociology, for publishing a new book titled Bloodied Bodies, Bloody Landscapes: Settler Colonialism in Horror<\/em>!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The publisher describes the book as<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Turning a lens on the dark legacy of colonialism in horror film, from Scream to Halloween and beyond<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Horror films, more than any other genre, offer a chilling glimpse\u2014like peering through a creaky attic door\u2014into the brutality of settler colonial violence. While Indigenous peoples continue to struggle against colonization, white settler narratives consistently position them as a threat, depicting the Indigenous Other as an ever-present menace, lurking on the fringes of \u201ccivilized\u201d society. Indigenous inclusion or exclusion in horror films tells a larger story about myths, fears, and anxieties that have endured for centuries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bloodied Bodies, Bloody Landscapes <\/em>traces connections between Indigenous representations, gender, and sexuality within iconic horror classics like The Texas Chainsaw Massacre <\/em>and Friday the 13th. <\/em>The savage killer, the romantic and doomed Indian, the feral \u201cmad woman\u201d\u2014no trope or archetype escapes the shadowy influence of settler colonialism. In the end, horror both disrupts and uncovers colonial violence\u2014only to bury its victims once more.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

Check out the full book here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Congratulations to Dr. Laura Hall, Associate Professor of Sociology, for publishing a new book titled Bloodied Bodies, Bloody Landscapes: Settler Colonialism in Horror! The publisher describes the book as Turning a lens on the dark legacy of colonialism in horror film, from Scream to Halloween and beyond Horror films, more than any other genre, offer a chilling glimpse\u2014like peering […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":307,"featured_media":32996,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[22,23,59],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32995","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-departmental-blog","category-news","category-sociology-faculty-news"],"acf":{"cu_post_thumbnail":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/socanth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32995","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/socanth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/socanth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/socanth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/307"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/socanth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32995"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/socanth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32995\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33003,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/socanth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32995\/revisions\/33003"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/socanth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32996"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/socanth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32995"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/socanth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32995"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/socanth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32995"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}