Impossible Shot

Eric Gary Anderson is associate professor of English at George Mason University. His recent work includes contributions to The Cambridge History of Native American Literature; Queering the South on Screen; Small-Screen Souths: Region, Identity, and Cultural Politics of Television in which he holds forth on The X-Files; and PMLA. He is coeditor of Undead Souths: The Gothic and Beyond in Southern Literature and Culture and is currently working on new book projects on the Indigenous undead and on slasher ecologies.

Russell Meeuf is professor at the University of Idaho and director of the Film and Television Program there. Among other works, he is author of White Terror: The Horror Film from Obama to Trump, which explores race in contemporary US horror cinema. He researches issues of race, gender, and identity in US popular culture, including genre films and celebrity culture.

Nancy McGuire Roche is assistant professor of cinema and television studies at Belmont University. Her recent publications include chapters in Modern American Drama on Screen and The Other Hollywood Renaissance. She is coeditor of Conversations with Edmund White, published by University Press of Mississippi.

Introduction
Eric Gary Anderson, Russell Meeuf, and Nancy McGuireRoche

Part 1: Media Spectacles and Exploitive Gazes
1. Nope and a History of Cinematic Contradictions
Thomas Britt
2. Spectacle as Form: The Crisis of Authorship of Nope
Jack Finucane and Laurent Shervington
3. Vulnerable Audiences and Dangerous Objects in Jordan Peele’s Nope
Noemí Fernández Labarga
4. Nope and the Endless Spectacle: The Splintering of Multiple Media Perspectives
Amira Shokr
5. Jordan Peele’s Films Are Worth a Thousand Words: Warnings, Spectacles, and Salvation Through Cameras and Footage in Get Out and Nope
Lauren Tocci

Part 2: Race, Colonialism, and Intertextuality
6. Nope, Kong, and the Economy of Viewing Monstrosity
Wade Newhouse
7. Embedded Histories: Landscape and the Cloud-Alien in Jordan Peele’s Nope
Robert Burgoyne
8. Heaven Shrieks When You Look at It
James Steck
9. (Re)Imagining Nope’s Black Heroes
Emily Diane Burkett
10. "I Will Set You as a Spectacle": Reappropriation/Representation in Jordan Peele’s Nope
Nancy McGuire Roche

Part 3: Animals, Ecology, and Nature
11. Failures of Domestication in Nope: Animals, Home, and Genre
Christy Tidwell
12. On Looking Away from Animals in Jordan Peele’s Nope
Adam Hebert
13. Nope’s Dark Ecology and Hyperobject Emergency
Hatice Bay
14. Spectacular, Tentacular Queerness: Taming Black Queer Ecologies in Jordan Peele’s Nope
Isaiah Frost Rivera

Bibliography
About the Contributors
Index