Critical Race Theory and Jordan Peele's Get Out

Zusatztext Conceptually rich, lucid, as timely and as harrowing as Get Out itself, Kevin Wynter's compelling text puts Critical Race Theory and Peele's film in a mutually illuminating dialog that fully does justice to both. Wynter mines the tension between history and ontology with rigor and elegance, giving full weight to pessimism but also insisting on the fundamental challenge CRT and Get Out leave us with: to ask, impossibly, how could things be otherwise, in the wake of slavery and racist violence? Informationen zum Autor Kevin Wynter is Assistant Professor of Media at Pomona College, USA. Articles on screen violence, horror, and pornography have appeared in Journal of Cinema and Media Studies , Cineaction, and the anthology Transnational Horror Cinema: Bodies of Excess and the Global Grotesque . His current book project is titled Feeling Absence: Theory of the Horror Film. A survey of key issues in contemporary critical race theory and how they are reflected in Jordan Peeleâ™s Get Out . Zusammenfassung This book provides a concise introduction to critical race theory and shows how this theory can be used to interpret Jordan Peele's Get Out . It surveys recent developments in critical race studies and introduces key concepts that have helped shape the field such as Black masculinity, white privilege, the Black body, and miscegenation. The book's analysis of Get Out situates it within the context of the American horror film, illustrating how contemporary debates in critical race theory and approaches to the analysis of mainstream Hollywood cinema can illuminate each other. In this way, the book provides both an accessible reference guide to key terminology in critical race studies and film studies, while contributing new scholarship to both fields. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgements IntroductionSection 1: Critical Race TheorySection 2: Critical Race Theory and Jordan Peele's Get Out Conclusion Further Reading Suggested Films and Media Index ...

Conceptually rich, lucid, as timely and as harrowing as Get Out itself, Kevin Wynter's compelling text puts Critical Race Theory and Peele's film in a mutually illuminating dialog that fully does justice to both. Wynter mines the tension between history and ontology with rigor and elegance, giving full weight to pessimism but also insisting on the fundamental challenge CRT and Get Out leave us with: to ask, impossibly, how could things be otherwise, in the wake of slavery and racist violence?

Vorwort
A survey of key issues in contemporary critical race theory and how they are reflected in Jordan Peele's Get Out.

Autorentext
Kevin Wynter is Assistant Professor of Media at Pomona College, USA. Articles on screen violence, horror, and pornography have appeared in Journal of Cinema and Media Studies, Cineaction, and the anthology Transnational Horror Cinema: Bodies of Excess and the Global Grotesque. His current book project is titled Feeling Absence: Theory of the Horror Film.

Zusammenfassung
This book provides a concise introduction to critical race theory and shows how this theory can be used to interpret Jordan Peele's Get Out. It surveys recent developments in critical race studies and introduces key concepts that have helped shape the field such as Black masculinity, white privilege, the Black body, and miscegenation. The book's analysis of Get Out situates it within the context of the American horror film, illustrating how contemporary debates in critical race theory and approaches to the analysis of mainstream Hollywood cinema can illuminate each other. In this way, the book provides both an accessible reference guide to key terminology in critical race studies and film studies, while contributing new scholarship to both fields.

Inhalt
Acknowledgements Introduction Section 1: Critical Race Theory Section 2: Critical Race Theory and Jordan Peele's Get Out Conclusion Further Reading Suggested Films and Media Index