Believable Impossibilities
Race, Testimony, and the Horror Film
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Believable Impossibilities
Race, Testimony, and the Horror Film
304 pages | 61 halftones | 6 x 9 | © 2026
Anthropology: Cultural and Social Anthropology
Literature and Literary Criticism: General Criticism and Critical Theory
Philosophy: General Philosophy
Table of Contents
Introduction: The Horror Ceremony
Chapter One: History in the Colonial Theater
Chapter Two: You Gotta Believe Me
Chapter Three: The Improper Life of Signs
Chapter Four: Believable Impossibilities
Chapter Five: Miracles for Sale
Chapter Six: Something like Telepathy
Conclusion: Tingling Is Believing
Acknowledgments
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Chapter One: History in the Colonial Theater
Chapter Two: You Gotta Believe Me
Chapter Three: The Improper Life of Signs
Chapter Four: Believable Impossibilities
Chapter Five: Miracles for Sale
Chapter Six: Something like Telepathy
Conclusion: Tingling Is Believing
Acknowledgments
Notes
Bibliography
Index