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- Title
Un viajero en tierras salvajes: La resignificacio'n de la raza y la otredad en el filme Get out de Jordan Peele.
- Authors
Acuña, M. Monserrat; Ávila González, Iván; Ponce Díaz, Romano
- Abstract
From the transdisciplinary position of Visual Studies and Decolonial Studies, an intratextual analysis of the ideological discourse of the film Get Out (2017) by Jordan Peele is presented. Through a reading focused on the intentio operis of the work, which uses the narrative analysis models of Zavala (2014), Žižek (2009) and Yepez (Yepez, 2020), it is proposed that Peele's work appropriates the generic conventions of western horror cinema, to emit an allegory where an inversion of the representation of otherness is made (Quijano, 2014; Smith, 2017). Throughout this text, it is argued that --within the film-- whiteness (Echeverría, 2010; Frankenberg, 1993; Morrison, 1992) and the values of American liberal society are the sources of terror and threat for the African-American protagonist. Such resignification of otherness is opposed to the canonical structure of homogeneous cinematography, where the plot presents the main characters entering the threatening world of racialized populations. Such a structure is represented by the film Cannibal Holocaust (Deodato, 1980) and literary antecedents such as Conrad's Heart of Darkness (2013). In this sense, it is possible to affirm that historically horror cinema has produced cultural representations where racialized people are shown as dangerous and abject bodies (Montes, 2017). Peele's aesthetic proposal, which marks a distance from hegemonic discourses, can only be explained from the historical conjuncture and the racial tensions that currently occur in the United States and that have a historical trajectory in social movements around racialization processes in that country.
- Subjects
IDEOLOGICAL analysis; SOCIAL movements; PEELE, Jordan, 1979-; RACIALIZATION; DISCOURSE analysis; OTHER (Philosophy); HORROR films; FILM genres
- Publication
Amauta 'Todo lo Humano es Nuestro', 2022, Vol 20, Issue 40, p87
- ISSN
1794-5658
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.15648/am.40.2022.3512