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Analyzing Jordan Peele's Get Out With Fanonism: Tracing Postcolonialism in Hollywood Representations

Analyzing Jordan Peele's Get Out With Fanonism: Tracing Postcolonialism in Hollywood Representations

Nurdan Akiner
Copyright: © 2021 |Pages: 20
ISBN13: 9781799871804|ISBN10: 1799871800|ISBN13 Softcover: 9781799871811|EISBN13: 9781799871828
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-7998-7180-4.ch005
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Akiner, Nurdan. "Analyzing Jordan Peele's Get Out With Fanonism: Tracing Postcolonialism in Hollywood Representations." Handbook of Research on Contemporary Approaches to Orientalism in Media and Beyond, edited by Işıl Tombul and Gülşah Sarı, IGI Global, 2021, pp. 72-91. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-7998-7180-4.ch005

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Akiner, N. (2021). Analyzing Jordan Peele's Get Out With Fanonism: Tracing Postcolonialism in Hollywood Representations. In I. Tombul & G. Sarı (Eds.), Handbook of Research on Contemporary Approaches to Orientalism in Media and Beyond (pp. 72-91). IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-7998-7180-4.ch005

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Akiner, Nurdan. "Analyzing Jordan Peele's Get Out With Fanonism: Tracing Postcolonialism in Hollywood Representations." In Handbook of Research on Contemporary Approaches to Orientalism in Media and Beyond, edited by Işıl Tombul and Gülşah Sarı, 72-91. Hershey, PA: IGI Global, 2021. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-7998-7180-4.ch005

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Abstract

The colonial discourse racially defined the others and distinguished between people regarded as barbarous, infidels, and savage, such as the inhabitants of America and Africa. The formal abolition of slavery has not been the solution for Blacks, but they have often been subjected to the domination of sovereign ideology at different social life levels. The dominant ideology in USA is also influential in representing Blacks in the cultural industry. This chapter examines the 2017 film Get Out, directed by Jordan Peele, as an example of the recent diversity positive trend in Hollywood. Peele is the first Black screenwriter to win the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay. The film was analyzed by Roland Barthes's semiotics theory and Frantz Fanon's critical theory Fanonism. This research shows that Get Out is truly a Black renaissance in Hollywood. The signs of racism skillfully placed in the film were analyzed by focusing on denotative and connotative meanings, and the racial oppression faced by African-Americans throughout history was revealed by regarding Fanonism.

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