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dc.contributor.advisorInnocenti, Beth
dc.contributor.advisorMapes, Meggie
dc.contributor.authorAscher, Jamie
dc.date.accessioned2023-09-04T23:15:44Z
dc.date.available2023-09-04T23:15:44Z
dc.date.issued2020-12-31
dc.date.submitted2020
dc.identifier.otherhttp://dissertations.umi.com/ku:17510
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/1808/34783
dc.description.abstractOne area that has not fully been explored in terms of its ability to engage in Black feminist consciousness-raising (CR) is the horror film genre. This project examines Jordan Peele’s 2017 Black horror film Get Out, arguing that this film engages in Black feminist CR by overtly and covertly addressing systemic racial oppression, white privilege, and the falseness of American post-raciality. I rhetorically analyze Get Out through the lens of Black feminist CR, which places an emphasis on collective experiential knowledge and combating intersectional oppressions while holding white/privileged participants accountable for their own complicity in perpetuating oppressive systemic racism. Ultimately, I argue that Peele’s goal in writing, producing, and directing Get Out was to raise the consciousness of white/privileged audiences by forcing them to take note of systemic racism’s presence in the present day, as well as recognize their complicity in keeping it intact.
dc.format.extent88 pages
dc.language.isoen
dc.publisherUniversity of Kansas
dc.rightsCopyright held by the author.
dc.subjectCommunication
dc.subjectFilm studies
dc.subjectWomen's studies
dc.subjectconsciousness-raising
dc.subjectfeminism
dc.subjecthorror
dc.subjectJordan Peele
dc.subjectpost-racial
dc.subjectsystemic racism
dc.titleGet in to Get Out: Peele-ian Horror and Consciousness-Raising
dc.typeThesis
dc.contributor.cmtememberChilders, Jay
dc.thesis.degreeDisciplineCommunication Studies
dc.thesis.degreeLevelM.A.
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