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Jordan Peele has only made three films, but in that time he has emerged as a master of high-concept black horror-thrillers, with a social edge and bitingly satirical takes on race, class and gender.
Jordan Peele’s latest horror film challenges viewers to consider technology, surveillance, other worldly life and the making of spectacle through different lenses — including the eyes of animals.
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When it comes to our ethical duties to animals, representation and respect should go hand in hoof.
Comic books like Elfquest were an inspiration to Canadian Indigenous author Daniel Heath Justice, who writes about ‘wonderworks.’
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This is the full transcript for Don’t Call Me Resilient, episode 7: How stories about alternate worlds can help us imagine a better future.
The work of imagining alternate futures is also about re-casting alternative pasts, as is done in the award-winning novel, ‘Washington Black’ by Esi Edugyan and adapted for the screen by podcast guest Selwyn Seyfu Hinds.
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Stories about alternative worlds can be a powerful way of critiquing the problems of our own world.
Octavia Spencer is one of the few black women to have a lead role in a horror film.
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For decades, black characters in horror movies were objects of ridicule, died first or played evil Voodoo practitioners. But now we’re seeing a wave of films created by blacks and starring blacks.
Lupita Nyong'o, Evan Alex, and Shahadi Wright Joseph in Jordan Peele’s Us (2019).
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Peele’s films reflect the way many African-American directors have used the horror genre to reflect the black experience.
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From Dundee to Dublin, horror spectaculars are springing up like zombies from the dead.