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.

"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

• IntroductionEric Gary Anderson, Russell Meeuf, and Nancy McGuireRochePart 1: Media Spectacles and Exploitive Gazes1. Nope and a History of Cinematic ContradictionsThomas Britt2. Spectacle as Form: The Crisis of Authorship of NopeJack Finucane and Laurent Shervington3. Vulnerable Audiences and Dangerous Objects in Jordan Peele’s NopeNoemí Fernández Labarga4. Nope and the Endless Spectacle: The Splintering of Multiple Media PerspectivesAmira Shokr5. Jordan Peele’s Films Are Worth a Thousand Words: Warnings, Spectacles, and Salvation Through Cameras and Footage in Get Out and NopeLauren TocciPart 2: Race, Colonialism, and Intertextuality6. Nope, Kong, and the Economy of Viewing MonstrosityWade Newhouse7. Embedded Histories: Landscape and the Cloud-Alien in Jordan Peele’s NopeRobert Burgoyne8. Heaven Shrieks When You Look at ItJames Steck9. (Re)Imagining Nope’s Black Heroes Emily Diane Burkett10. "I Will Set You as a Spectacle": Reappropriation/Representation in Jordan Peele’s NopeNancy McGuire Roche Part 3: Animals, Ecology, and Nature11. Failures of Domestication in Nope: Animals, Home, and GenreChristy Tidwell12. On Looking Away from Animals in Jordan Peele’s NopeAdam Hebert13. Nope’s Dark Ecology and Hyperobject EmergencyHatice Bay14. Spectacular, Tentacular Queerness: Taming Black Queer Ecologies in Jordan Peele’s NopeIsaiah Frost RiveraBibliographyAbout the ContributorsIndex