Pam Grier in Scream, Blacula Scream I thoroughly enjoyed Horror Noire: Blacks in American Horror Films from the 1890s to Present by Dr. Robin R Means Coleman. The title is self explanatory as she offers a rich, historical frame for Black artistic participation in the American horror film genre. With a 'know your facts' approach, the chapter that gave me considerable insight into Blaxploitation, "Scream, Whitey, Scream -- Retribution, Enduring Women, and Carnality: 1970s" extends to the reader a phrase I've never entertained that is found in the title; the Enduring Women . In contrast to Clover's Final Girl, Coleman argues that " 1970s horror films featuring Black women handled the Final Girl with noteworthy variation " with characters who were multiplicitous; " highly sexualized " and fought back, not " up against some boogeyman; rather, often their battle is with racism and corruption " which Coleman insists is a never
purging the black female horror fan from the margins