American obscurantism: history and the visual in U.S. literature and film

Introduction: envisioning obscurity: history, racial knowing, and the "Perfect Whiteness of the Snow"

Seeing in the dark houses: history and obscurity in Light in August and Absalom, Absalom!

"Orders from the house": American historicism in The Shining

Fargo's whitened spaces: history, race, and the postmodern sublime

Queer historiography in The bridge

Conclusion: "Rememory," the visual, and America's future history: race and the digital turn.