The monster is us: Jordan Peele's Get Out exposes society's horrors

(Lehigh University) As a horror film, Jordan Peele's 2017 film Get Out certainly broke new ground. Yet, the film is firmly rooted in what Dawn Keetley refers to as " ...the longstanding tradition of the political horror film " which is " ...driven by very human monsters. " Keetley, Professor and Chair of the Department of English at Lehigh University, edited a recently-published collection of sixteen essays about the critically-acclaimed film, the first scholarly publication to examine the film.
Source: EurekAlert! - Social and Behavioral Science - Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: news