Description: The definitive book on Jordan Peele's most daring and ambitious film
Brief description: 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.
Review Quotes: This collection examines Jordan Peele's Nope through various critical lenses, engaging with interwoven themes of spectacle, media, technology, genre, race, representation, and the environment, as well as the critical questions they raise regarding exploitation, power, and audience complicity. The essays offer an interdisciplinary and intersectional approach to the film, providing valuable context within Peele's oeuvre.--Penelope Ingram, author of Imperiled Whiteness: How Hollywood and Media Make Race in "Postracial" America