Get Out: An Afrofuturist Vision of an African American’s Worst Nightmare
- Date of Event
- 2017-02-24
- Title
- Get Out: An Afrofuturist Vision of an African American’s Worst Nightmare
- Brief Description
- The release of the Jordan Peele movie titled Get Out
- Location
- Fairhope, Alabama
- Student creator name(s)
- Grace Buchanan
- Afrofuturism Canon
- Afrofuturism, ethnogothic
- Tag(s)
- AfroFuturism
- Horror Noire/Ethnogothic
- Abstract
- In this Afrofuturist analysis I researched the Jordan Peele movie Get Out and expanded on the ways in which Peele exposes not only present day threats to black lives, but also resurrects the atrocities of the antebellum south, representing them in accordance with futuristic technology. Get Out fits the conceptual framework of an afrofuturist movie when Peele uses aspects of black history to tell a contemporary horror story that stems from the menacing truth of what it means to be black in America.