Contributor
Keetley, Dawn, 1965- editor.
ImprintColumbus : The Ohio State University Press, [2020]
Imprint2020
Descriptionvi, 253 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Note: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.
Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Note:"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."-- Provided by publisher.
