Get Out - Cinema and the myth of post-racial America
Screen Cultures Seminar with Alison Landsberg and Kriss Ravetto-Biagioli
Tuesday 14.06.22
Tuesday 14.06.22
Jordan Peele’s Get Out (2017) is one of the most celebrated critiques of post-racial America to appear in recent times. Central to this critique is the troubled, ongoing relationship between the past and the present – history’s continued, but frequently unacknowledged influence on the present.
This seminar involves a screening of the film, with lectures by and a subsequent discussion round with, two of the most influential scholars of film, memory and American culture: Prof. Dr. Alison Landsberg (George Mason University) and Prof. Dr. Kriss Ravetto-Biagioli (UC Davis).
Program
12:00–12:15 Welcome
12:15–14:00 Get Out (screening)
14:00–14:15 Break
14:15–14:45 Alison Landsberg: "Dialectical Images and Counter-Temporalities: The Rewriting of US Racial Histories in American Mass Culture"
14:45–15:15 Kriss Ravetto-Biagioli: "Ghosts, Possession, and Race in Get Out"
15:15–15:30 Break
15:30–16:30 Discussion and Q&A
Watch the lectures
About the term: The myth of post-racial America is that race no longer matters and no longer is a meaningful category by which to understand the social organisation of American life.
The seminar is presented in collaboration with the master's program Screen Cultures at the University of Oslo.
Title
Get out
Directed by
Jordan Peele
Country
USA, Japan
Year
2017
Languages
English, Swahili
Duration
1h 44 min
