Media images supply the visual grammar for racialized fear

Evidence

The Doll’s mind leapt back to the police with their guns and black uniforms looking like death, to the television report the day before about the Homebush bombs, and then the woman appeared to the Doll not as another woman, but as something terrifying and unknown, an evil spectre she had seen so often in films, a short and stubby Darth Vader. — Peter Morey, Islamophobia and the Novel, 365

Categorization

• XREF: The ‘Darth Vader’ overlay is a potent instance of how fiction names the interpellation of media imagery — compare to Hamid’s use of filmic clichés. — connects to: Films seen before understanding become permanent emotional image banks — Mark Fisher, Ghosts of My Life: Writings on…, 376