Flooding (v.): Unleashing a mass torrent of the same stories by the same storytellers at the same time, making it almost impossible for anyone but the same select few to rise to the surface.
Jordan Peele
Posted inCrime, Highlight, Profiles & Interviews, Quotes, Unapologetic Women
We’ve All Been Unreliable Witnesses to Lorena
“I’ll put myself through the jokes and everything as long as I can shine a light on domestic violence and sexual assault and marital rape.”
Posted inArts & Culture, Nonfiction, Quotes
Race in America Has Never Been an Either-Or Proposition
Zadie Smith examines the racially-charged work of Jordan Peele’s ‘Get Out’ and Dana Schutz’s ‘Emmett Till’
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Black Men Terrified
Frederick McKindra examines how James DeMonaco’s The Purge and Jordan Peele’s Get Out turn the the horror genre’s racial dynamics upside down.