Woke Horror: Sociopolitics, Genre, and Blackness in Get Out
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Release date: February 2018
Author: Kyna B. Morgan
ISBN: 978-0-9998756-0-5
Page count: 82
Format: Hardcover
"Morgan offers a thoroughly engaging and comprehensively researched consideration of Peele's Get Out (2017) as a piece of zeitgeist cinema, ideal for those seeking to investigate contemporary horror film. Covering a wealth of background influences from socio-political horror and an astute application of genre theory, this is a timely study indeed." - Dr. Darren Elliott-Smith, University of Hertfordshire (UK), author of Queer Horror: Masculinity and Sexuality at the Margins of Film and Television (2016)
About the Book
Jordan Peele’s film Get Out (2017) has, in a short time, created a noticeable impact on American film through a presentation of phenomenological experiences of racism against Blacks in contemporary U.S. society, controlling the normally White gaze of Hollywood by letting us see through the protagonist’s eyes. Rooted in the horror genre, it is a transcendent sociopolitical work that proclaims itself as “woke.” By confronting colour-blind and covert racism within liberal White communities, Get Out has received nearly universal praise but also some blowback. However, the film’s progressive nature is worthy of an examination of its digressions which may reinforce conservative values around race. As a comedy and satire, it also asserts itself as a distinctly postmodern film. Woke Horror seeks to explore these themes and the film’s position with the sociopolitical horror genre and, more broadly, its place within American zeitgeist cinema.
Distributors and Bookstores
Libraries
Read the Table of Contents
Release date: February 2018
Author: Kyna B. Morgan
ISBN: 978-0-9998756-0-5
Page count: 82
Format: Hardcover
"Morgan offers a thoroughly engaging and comprehensively researched consideration of Peele's Get Out (2017) as a piece of zeitgeist cinema, ideal for those seeking to investigate contemporary horror film. Covering a wealth of background influences from socio-political horror and an astute application of genre theory, this is a timely study indeed." - Dr. Darren Elliott-Smith, University of Hertfordshire (UK), author of Queer Horror: Masculinity and Sexuality at the Margins of Film and Television (2016)
About the Book
Jordan Peele’s film Get Out (2017) has, in a short time, created a noticeable impact on American film through a presentation of phenomenological experiences of racism against Blacks in contemporary U.S. society, controlling the normally White gaze of Hollywood by letting us see through the protagonist’s eyes. Rooted in the horror genre, it is a transcendent sociopolitical work that proclaims itself as “woke.” By confronting colour-blind and covert racism within liberal White communities, Get Out has received nearly universal praise but also some blowback. However, the film’s progressive nature is worthy of an examination of its digressions which may reinforce conservative values around race. As a comedy and satire, it also asserts itself as a distinctly postmodern film. Woke Horror seeks to explore these themes and the film’s position with the sociopolitical horror genre and, more broadly, its place within American zeitgeist cinema.
