The crackers are crackering in this one! We discuss multimedia representations of the black experience and what critic Grace Heneks calls "white fright" in Jordan Peele's 2017 tour de force, Get Out. Calling upon classic horror tropes, Peele reshapes the horror genre and we can't stop talking about it!

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Sources:

Heneks, Grace. “Ocular Rebellion: The Satirical Gaze of White Fright in Jordan Peele’s Get Out.” The Journal of Popular Culture, vol. 55, no. 4, 2022.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Get_Out 

https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/527409/10-fast-facts-about-get-out 

https://variety.com/2017/film/news/jordan-peele-get-out-systemic-racism-1202604824/ 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Souls_of_Black_Folk 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W._E._B._Du_Bois 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double_consciousness