Jordan Peele’s Get Out and the Mediation of History

IF 0.9 4区社会学 Q2 CULTURAL STUDIES

Representations Pub Date : 2021-08-01 DOI:10.1525/rep.2021.155.5.110

S. Parrish

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Abstract

In its attention to the undead state of American slavery, Jordan Peele’s film Get Out (2017) appears to fulfill Stephen Best’s diagnosis of a “melancholy historicism” in recent Black cultural production. But instead, the film draws viewers into a virtual experience—and potential analysis—of the roles of both technological and environmental media (from TV, film, and cellphones to housing, ceramics, and cotton) in perpetuating, or disrupting, Black captive kinship to a state of originary loss.

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乔丹·皮尔的《出去》和《历史的调解》

乔丹·皮尔(Jordan Peele)的电影《逃出绝命镇》(2017)关注美国奴隶制的不死状态，似乎实现了斯蒂芬·贝斯特(Stephen Best)对近期黑人文化作品中“忧郁的历史决定论”的诊断。但相反，这部电影将观众带入了一种虚拟的体验——以及潜在的分析——技术和环境媒体(从电视、电影、手机到住房、陶瓷和棉花)在延续或破坏黑人被俘虏的亲属关系到一种原始损失状态中的作用。

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