Get Out Flashcards
there’s a void
in how we talk about race
peele
rod is a release valve
and he speaks the truth too: comedy and horror are both about truth
The stepford wives
forbes 1975
post
racial lie
race is the
monster we’re fearing
Trayvon
stick
martin 2012: racism in America
“stick out like a sore thumb”
ava DuVernay
13th
2016
chattel slavery post industrial prison complex
“disproportionate number of black men thrown into a dark room for the rest of their lives”
to engage in its
images was to engage in the negation of black representation” hooks
night of the living dead
romero 1968
the wicker man
hardy 1973
the kind of people
i’d meet at parties who were eager to tell me they voted for Obama
black is in
fashion- medium shot
Staging of the quiet, tree-lined bucolic neighborhood evokes
Halloween Carpenter 1987
the shining Kubrick 1980
flanagan and allen
1939 ‘run rabbit run’
siwhali score lyrics
“brother listen to your ancestors- run!”
Michael Abels
sikiliza kara wahenga
subverting the idea
of a perfect white suburb
Peele
social interactions
are all about “white people’s comfort rather than their own” Romano
get out begins by
dramatizing suburban racial anxieties from the perspective of the ‘nonwhite outsider’ who is more usually seen as a potential threat than a victim
murphy
ornate streetlamps
towering oaks, large houses
“creepy, confusing ass suburbs”
low-key lighting cast by ornate streetlamps impenetrable shadows that begin to fill the frame- darkness infiltrated scene
Existence will
be as a passenger, an audience
hudson
division of voice and body
illusions 1982 Dash
“We’re marginalized, no matter how hard we scream the system marginalises us
theres this trend in
race driven movies where the last good white person cant be racist
peele
audience to be immersed
in the experience of being a black man walking down the street in a white neighborhood
rosemarys baby
polanski 1976
nothing
i just sat there watching TV
I dont want to get
chasen off the lawn with a shotgun
divided sense of self
du bois
