M. Keith Booker
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Also affiliated: Boston University (1991); Oak Ridge National Laboratory (1976); University of Florida (1987); Arab Open University (2018)
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M. Keith Booker's research examines contemporary American literature and film, with a particular focus on how these media engage with issues of race, identity, and societal anxieties. His work often analyzes the allegorical and symbolic dimensions of narratives, exploring themes such as cognitive mapping, the persistence of historical traumas, and critiques of patriarchal structures. Booker has published extensively on prominent contemporary figures like Jordan Peele and Percival Everett, investigating their contributions to discussions of "post-Black" identity and the gothic elements in their storytelling. He also analyzes films that engage with environmental concerns, such as David Cronenberg's *Crimes of the Future*, and examines the cultural logic embedded in cinematic representations of domesticity and gender roles, as seen in his work on *Don't Worry Darling*. Booker's scholarship also delves into the relationship between historical narratives and contemporary social commentary, as evidenced by his analyses of films and novels that revisit or reframe aspects of American history and identity.
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- h-index: 15
- Publications: 155
- Citations: 910
Selected Publications
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“In the Clutches of a Vampire”: Gothic Romance, Pastiche, and the Persistence of Patriarchy in Anna Biller’s <i/> <i>Bluebeard’s Castle</i> (2026)
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Environmental Change and Revenge (2025)
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Post-Black, Post-Huck, and Postmodern: The Dialogic Complexity of Percival Everett’s <em>James </em>(2024) (2025)
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Strange Fruit: Menippean Laughter and the Gothic Return of the Past in Percival Everett’s <i>The Trees</i> (2025)
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Don’t Worry Darling: Critiquing the nostalgic cultural logic of late patriarchy (2025)
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Environmental Change and Revenge (2025)
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Renfield: The Vampire’s Undying Assistant (2024)
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Robert Eggers’s The Lighthouse: Art horror, alienated labour and capitalist routinization (2024)
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Patriarchy Then and Now—With a Twist: The Postmodern Horror of Alex Garland’s Men (2024)
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Renfield: The Vampire’s Undying Assistant (2023)
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Ben Wheatley’s <i>In the Earth</i> (2021): Folk Horror as Climate Change Warning (2023)
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Lost in the funhouse: Allegorical horror and cognitive mapping in Jordan Peele’s Us (2021)
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Unreal City: Nostalgia, Authenticity, and Posthumanity in “San Junipero” (2019)
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Guide to the classics: Donald Trump’s Brave New World and Aldous Huxley’s dystopian vision (2018)
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- Lost in the funhouse: Allegorical horror and cognitive mapping in Jordan Peele’s Us
- Don’t Worry Darling: Critiquing the nostalgic cultural logic of late patriarchy
- Ben Wheatley’s <i>In the Earth</i> (2021): Folk Horror as Climate Change Warning
- Renfield: The Vampire’s Undying Assistant
- Patriarchy Then and Now—With a Twist: The Postmodern Horror of Alex Garland’s Men
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