Dissecting depictions of black masculinity in Get Out

Sobande, Francesca ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4788-4099 2019. Dissecting depictions of black masculinity in Get Out. Holland, Samantha, Shail, Robert and Gerrard, Steven, eds. Gender and Contemporary Horror in Film, Emerald Studies in Popular Culture and Gender, Bingley: Emerald Publishing, pp. 237-250. (10.1108/978-1-78769-897-020191016)

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Abstract

Jordan Peele’s critically acclaimed directorial debut Get Out (2017) highlights the issues regarding racism and Black identity that have seldom been the subject of horror film. More specifically, Get Out offers representations of Black masculinity that push against the stereotypical and reductive ways that Black men have often been depicted in horror cinema. The portrayal of Black men in Get Out takes shape in ways influenced by a range of relationships featured in the film. Amongst these is the dynamic between the leading character Chris (Daniel Kaluuya) and his white girlfriend Rose (Allison Williams), in addition to Chris’s interactions with Rose’s mother Missy (Catherine Keener), as well as his best friend Rod (Lil Rel Howery). As such, scrutiny of Get Out yields insight into the construction of Black masculinity in horror film, including how on-screen inter- and intra-racial relations are implicated in this. The writing that follows focuses on how Get Out offers complex and scarcely featured representations of Black masculinity, and boyhood, in horror. As part of such discussion, there is analysis of the entanglements of on-screen gender and racial politics, which contribute to the nuances of depictions of Black masculinity in Get Out.

Item Type:	Book Section
Date Type:	Publication
Status:	Published
Schools:	Journalism, Media and Culture
Subjects:	E History America > E151 United States (General) H Social Sciences > H Social Sciences (General) H Social Sciences > HM Sociology H Social Sciences > HQ The family. Marriage. Woman H Social Sciences > HT Communities. Classes. Races
Publisher:	Emerald Publishing
ISBN:	9781787698987
Last Modified:	04 Nov 2022 12:07
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/121938

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