Date of Award

1-1-2018

Document Type

Masters Thesis

Degree Name

M.A.

Organizational Unit

College of Arts Humanities and Social Sciences, Communication Studies

First Advisor

Armond R. Towns, Ph.D.

Second Advisor

Christina Foust

Third Advisor

Lynn Schofield-Clark

Keywords

Get Out, Race, Gender

Abstract

This thesis investigates the entanglements of spatialized racial-sexual violence, conceptualizations of black female subjectivity, questions of the limitations and excesses of media representations and the socioeconomic, cultural and spatiotemptoral relations that make black images visible and (im) possible as they are situated in the cinematic black political imagination. Through a materialist media analysis of the 2017 film Get Out, I argue that the film and its articulation of the afterlife of slavery fails to account for gender by tangentially engaging black women in its dissection of race and racism. I contend that black women are the absent presence in the film and a dissection of their (in) visibilities is necessary to reveal race's unresolved relationship to race and deepen the film's mediation of the connection between race, gender and representation.

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Rights Holder

Daelena Tinnin

Provenance

Received from ProQuest

File Format

application/pdf

Language

en

File Size

64 p.

Discipline

Communication

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