Publisher:
The Ohio State University Press, Columbus
"Essays explore Get Out's cultural roots, including Shakespeare's Othello, the female gothic, Ira Levin's Rosemary's Baby, The Stepford Wives, and the zombie, rural, suburban, and body-swap subgenres of the modern horror film. Essays make connections...
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"Essays explore Get Out's cultural roots, including Shakespeare's Othello, the female gothic, Ira Levin's Rosemary's Baby, The Stepford Wives, and the zombie, rural, suburban, and body-swap subgenres of the modern horror film. Essays make connections with Nat Turner, W. E. B. Du Bois, and James Baldwin"--
From Tragedy to Horror: Othello and Get Out / Jonathan Byron and Tony Perrello -- Burning Down the House: Get Out and the Female Gothic / Linnie Blake -- A Peaceful Place Denied: Horror Film’s "Whitopias" / Robin R. Means Coleman and Novotny Lawrence -- Get Out and the Zombie Film / Erin Casey-Williams -- Place, Space, and the Reconfiguration of "White Trash" Monstrosity / Bernice M. Murphy -- The Body Horror of White Second Chances in John Frankenheimer’s Seconds and Jordan Peele’s Get Out / Robyn Citizen -- Jordan Peele and Ira Levin Go to the Movies: The Black/Jewish Genealogy of Modern Horror’s Minority Vocabulary / Adam Lowenstein -- Racism that Grins: African American Gothic Realism and Systemic Critique / Sarah Ilott -- Reviewing Get Out’s Reviews: What Critics Said and How Their Race Mattered / Todd K. Platts and David L. Brunsma -- Specters of Slave Revolt / Sarah Juliet Lauro -- Staying Woke in Sunken Places, or The Wages of Double Consciousness / Mikal J. Gaines -- Holding onto Hulk Hogan: Contending with the Rape of the Black Male Psyche / Robert LaRue -- The Horror of the Photographic Eye / Kyle Brett -- The Fantasy of White Immortality and Black Male Corporeality in James Baldwin’s "Going to Meet the Man" and Get Out / Laura Thorp -- Scientific Racism and the Politics of Looking / Cayla McNally -- "Do You Belong in This Neighborhood?" Get Out’s Paratexts / Alex Svensson
Publisher:
The Ohio State University Press, Columbus
"Essays explore Get Out's cultural roots, including Shakespeare's Othello, the female gothic, Ira Levin's Rosemary's Baby, The Stepford Wives, and the zombie, rural, suburban, and body-swap subgenres of the modern horror film. Essays make connections...
more
"Essays explore Get Out's cultural roots, including Shakespeare's Othello, the female gothic, Ira Levin's Rosemary's Baby, The Stepford Wives, and the zombie, rural, suburban, and body-swap subgenres of the modern horror film. Essays make connections with Nat Turner, W. E. B. Du Bois, and James Baldwin"--
From Tragedy to Horror: Othello and Get Out / Jonathan Byron and Tony Perrello -- Burning Down the House: Get Out and the Female Gothic / Linnie Blake -- A Peaceful Place Denied: Horror Film’s "Whitopias" / Robin R. Means Coleman and Novotny Lawrence -- Get Out and the Zombie Film / Erin Casey-Williams -- Place, Space, and the Reconfiguration of "White Trash" Monstrosity / Bernice M. Murphy -- The Body Horror of White Second Chances in John Frankenheimer’s Seconds and Jordan Peele’s Get Out / Robyn Citizen -- Jordan Peele and Ira Levin Go to the Movies: The Black/Jewish Genealogy of Modern Horror’s Minority Vocabulary / Adam Lowenstein -- Racism that Grins: African American Gothic Realism and Systemic Critique / Sarah Ilott -- Reviewing Get Out’s Reviews: What Critics Said and How Their Race Mattered / Todd K. Platts and David L. Brunsma -- Specters of Slave Revolt / Sarah Juliet Lauro -- Staying Woke in Sunken Places, or The Wages of Double Consciousness / Mikal J. Gaines -- Holding onto Hulk Hogan: Contending with the Rape of the Black Male Psyche / Robert LaRue -- The Horror of the Photographic Eye / Kyle Brett -- The Fantasy of White Immortality and Black Male Corporeality in James Baldwin’s "Going to Meet the Man" and Get Out / Laura Thorp -- Scientific Racism and the Politics of Looking / Cayla McNally -- "Do You Belong in This Neighborhood?" Get Out’s Paratexts / Alex Svensson