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‘The environment is us’: Settler cartographies of Indigeneity and Blackness in Prophecy (1979)
- Science Fiction Film and Television
- Liverpool University Press
- Volume 14, Issue 3, Autumn 2021
- pp. 315-331
- Article
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Abstract:
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.