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Critical Race Theory & Jordan Peele's Get Out by Kevin Wynter -…
Critical Race Theory & Jordan Peele's
Get Out
by Kevin Wynter - Introduction
The Horror Film
"...a reliable barometer of America's degeneracy and social deterioration." (pg. 1)
"...the domestic home and family unit is imperiled by a threatening Other..." (pg. 1)
"Does the horror film offer the same cathartic possibilities for Black viewers as it is said to offer white viewers?" (pg. 3-4)
"...the American horror film has historically been unkind to Black characters who tend only to appear in the genre in support of its white protagonists, as comic relief in the form of 'cooning and buffooning,' to offer exaggerated expressions of terror..." (pg. 4)
Generally inhospitable for Black viewers
Reflective of current socio-political topics
Key Words/Concepts for Chapt. 1
White Grievance
Black Lives Matter
Afropessimism
Ontology
Microaggressions
White Privilege
Colorblindness
The White Gaze
The Black Body
"Woke" / Wake
"Trans/plantation"
"The Final Brother"
Timeliness
Black Awakening
Black Nihilism
Get Out
(2017)
Implicitly focuses on Black Lives Matter movement
One of the key films to foster a racial shift in the horror genre
"...triggered a new wave of American horror films." (pg. 3)
Challenges the way Blackness is identified on screen
Assesses neoliberal takes on colorblindness, police brutality, and equality.
How the Black Body becomes a "conduit for stereotypes of Black masculinity and physical possibilities." (pg. 9)
Division between urban and suburban
Draws from history of slave auctioning
Modernizes American slavery
Critical Race Theory (CRT)
Central premise: racism is permanent in America
Transatlantic slave trade and plantation slavery are "existing institutional arrangements in which the principles of anti-Black terror have been extended..." (pg. 5)
"What if pursuit of racial justice inexorably leads to dead ends?" (pg. 5)
What if white supremacy refuses to acknowledge its denial of Black life...?" (pg. 5)
Black subjugation remains a site of struggle in critical race theory and is "never seen merely as a regrettable episode on the ledger of US history to be reflected upon, written about, and visualized in the past tense." (pg. 5)
Aim of Book
To combine critical race theory and film studies
To provide a critical race analysis of the film while offering working examples
To describe and analyze the history of the horror film
Provide and informs recent terms that best reflect the themes in
Get Out
To offer an account of contemporary critical race theory
Structure of Book
Chapter 2: textual analysis of Get Out using terms identified in first chapter
Chapter 1: Introduces and informs recent terms and concepts that surround critical race theory, Blackness, race, and racism.