{"id":51573,"date":"2017-02-18T20:10:59","date_gmt":"2017-02-18T20:10:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=51573"},"modified":"2017-02-19T01:42:27","modified_gmt":"2017-02-19T01:42:27","slug":"jordan-peele-on-a-truly-terrifying-monster-racism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=51573","title":{"rendered":"Jordan Peele on a Truly Terrifying Monster: Racism"},"content":{"rendered":"

Jordan Peele on a Truly Terrifying Monster: Racism<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

The New York Times<\/a>
\n2017-02-16<\/p>\n

Jason Zinoman<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\nJordan Peele<\/a>, who is making his directorial debut with the horror film \u201cGet Out<\/a>.\u201d Credit Elizabeth Weinberg for The New York Times<\/em><\/small><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

The sketch comedian takes on racial politics and the \u201cliberal elite\u201d in his debut feature, the horror movie \u201cGet Out<\/a>.\u201d Here, he talks about his life and work.<\/em><\/p>\n

No serious fan of the sketch comedy show \u201cKey & Peele<\/a>\u201d will be surprised that Jordan Peele<\/a> (the shorter half of its starring duo) is making his directorial debut with a horror film. Their acclaimed Comedy Central<\/a> series may have been best known for President Obama\u2019s \u201canger translator<\/a>,\u201d but it often lampooned scary movies with a specificity that could come only from a connoisseur of things that go bump in the night. (No one has made a funnier parody of \u201cThe Shining<\/a>.\u201d)<\/p>\n

In his new movie, \u201cGet Out<\/a>,\u201d he plays the scares straight, writing and directing the rare horror movie that tackles racial politics head on. In a scenario that has been described as \u201cThe Stepford Wives<\/a>\u201d meets \u201cGuess Who\u2019s Coming to Dinner<\/a>,\u201d Chris (Daniel Kaluuya<\/a>), an African-American photographer, is about to meet his white girlfriend\u2019s parents for the first time when he\u2019s rattled to learn that she has not told them he is black. His anxiety increases when her father goes out of his way to tell him that he would have voted for Mr. Obama<\/a> for a third term and when the forced smiles of the parents\u2019 exclusively black servants start seeming a little uncanny. Racial micro-aggressions<\/a> and ominous signs (bad dreams, dead animals) mount, as this fish-out-of-water story takes a foreboding turn…<\/p>\n