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Close-Up: Jordan Peele, the "Looking Trilogy": Black Identity and Resistance Revisited through Jordan Peele's Get Out and Us

Drawing on the theoretical ideas of cinema and Black representation introduced byManthia Diawara and bell hooks nearly three decades ago, Get Out and Us stage Black male and female orientations challenging established schol-arship on Black representation in contemporary movies. "Black Spectator...

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Published in:Black camera : the newsletter of the Black Film Center/Archives 2023-10, Vol.15 (1), p.226-241
Main Author: Baker, Jayson
Format: Article
Language:English
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Summary:Drawing on the theoretical ideas of cinema and Black representation introduced byManthia Diawara and bell hooks nearly three decades ago, Get Out and Us stage Black male and female orientations challenging established schol-arship on Black representation in contemporary movies. "Black Spectatorship" illustrates how white masculine ways of looking extend onto Blackbodies narrating power relations visible in the main through cinematic structures. bell hooks keenly locates omissions in Diawaras analyses, illuminating how the experiences of Black women are underserved in Black American Cinema (1993). Adelaide/Red switch positions in childhood, an event dictating very different American experiences for Black motherhood and their respective family members. For Black filmic representation purposes, it is the camera that directs viewpoints onto the Black body and denies Black looking points in similar ways that white male desire looks at women and refuses her ability to look for herself.
ISSN:1536-3155
1947-4237
DOI:10.2979/blackcamera.l5.1.16