On this website, Dr Caroline V. Schroeter explores the development of North American slave narratives and takes a closer look at the shift from the 19th-century manuscripts to their modern iterations, a form she coins as "cinematic slave narratives". The selected works include Django Unchained (2012), 12 Years a Slave (2013), The Book of Negroes (2015), The Birth of a Nation (2016). Key areas of her research are the representation of African Americans, slavery, gender, and race in literature and on screen.
