Jordan Peele’s Get Out and the Mediation of History

Autor: Susan Scott Parrish
Rok vydání: 2021
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Zdroj: Representations. 155:110-138
ISSN: 1533-855X
0734-6018
DOI: 10.1525/rep.2021.155.5.110
Popis: In its attention to the undead state of American slavery, Jordan Peele’s film Get Out (2017) appears to fulfill Stephen Best’s diagnosis of a “melancholy historicism” in recent Black cultural production. But instead, the film draws viewers into a virtual experience—and potential analysis—of the roles of both technological and environmental media (from TV, film, and cellphones to housing, ceramics, and cotton) in perpetuating, or disrupting, Black captive kinship to a state of originary loss.
Databáze: OpenAIRE