- Titel
- “I Want Your Eye, Man”
- Untertitel
- Appropriation, Defamiliarization, and (Meta-)Minstrelization in Get Out
- Zitierfähige Url:
- https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:bsz:15-qucosa2-968604
- Quellenangabe
- Supernatural Studies
Erscheinungsjahr: 2022
Jahrgang: 7
Heft: 2
Seiten: 57-81
ISSN: 2470-203X
E-ISSN: 2325-4866 - Erstveröffentlichung
- 2022
- Abstract (EN)
- Jordan Peele’s 2017 film Get Out has been studied for numerous (inter)textual and generic allegiances already, yet this article wants to add another avenue by examining in how far the film reacts to a particular tradition of Black representation in US popular culture: minstrelization. The article conceptualizes this term as originating in nineteenth-century minstrel shows but as encompassing a larger social process, which it proposes to frame as an invective practice building on specific affordances and affects. This framework is then used to analyze a few select scenes of Get Out for how they reference and represent minstrelization. In a final section, I argue that it is specifically due to the film’s fantastic deviation from the otherwise realist depiction of its storyworld that it manages to turn its representation of minstrelization into a newly unsettling and defamiliarizing one that could be called meta-minstrelization instead. The article thus expands the scholarly discourse on Get Out’s intertextual dimensions by examining a representational legacy that has not yet been considered in detail. Additionally, it provides an argument for why Get Out, despite making use of the same tropes as previous discriminatory representations of Blackness, ultimately manages to subvert them.
- Freie Schlagwörter (EN)
- affect, appropriation, horror, invective, minstrelzation
- Klassifikation (DDC)
- 770
- Herausgeber (Institution)
- Supernatural Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Art, Media, and Culture
- Version / Begutachtungsstatus
- publizierte Version / Verlagsversion
- URN Qucosa
- urn:nbn:de:bsz:15-qucosa2-968604
- Veröffentlichungsdatum Qucosa
- 28.04.2025
- Dokumenttyp
- Artikel
- Sprache des Dokumentes
- Englisch
- Lizenz / Rechtehinweis
CC BY-NC 4.0