The relation between horror and racism in the movie Get Out!

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https://doi.org/10.18568/cmc.v17i48.2094

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Horror, Racismo, Experiência estética

Abstract

This article discusses how the movie Get Out!, directed by Jordan Peele, introduces sensitive experiences about horror and racism in contemporary societies. The concept of horror its understood through Eugene Thacker, for whom the genre fruition occurs by the thinking in an unthinkable world, non-human and unknown. Considered as the other in the Western society, the condition of being black, category created during the slavery and colonization process for the dehumanization of Africans (GILROY, 2007), answers this genre definition. The act of being black provokes horror in whom ignores the human condition, at the same time its affected in their humanity by the racism. This essay promotes the encounter between two researches that investigates the characteristics of aesthetics experiences of horror in the contemporaneity: thinking the phenomenon beyond fear (ACKER, 2018) with that one proposes a criticism to structural racism in the media (CAMPOS, 2018).

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Ana Maria Acker, Universidade Luterana do Brasil - ULBRA

PhD in Communication and Information at Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul − UFRGS and Master’s degree at the same institution. Professor in the Journalism course at Universidade Luterana do Brasil − ULBRA. She has a Bachelor’s degree in Social Communication − Journalism and she is a specialist in Cinema at Universidade do Rio do Sinos - Unisinos.

Deivison Moacir Cezar de Campos

Professor at the Post-Graduation Program in Education at Universidade Luterana do Brasil − ULBRA. PhD in Communication Sciences at Universidade do Vale do Rio dos Sinos − Unisinos.

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Published

2020-04-27

How to Cite

Acker, A. M., & Campos, D. M. C. de. (2020). The relation between horror and racism in the movie Get Out!. Comunicação Mídia E Consumo, 17(48), 169–192. https://doi.org/10.18568/cmc.v17i48.2094

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Vol. 17 No. 48 (2020): JANEIRO/ABRIL

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