The Black Reclamation of the Body Snatchers | READUS 101
Added 2023-07-05 16:00:11 +0000 UTCJordan Peele’s Get Out is a great addition to the horror genre surrounding body snatchers, because it highlights body snatchers' roots to whiteness instead of the anti-communist propaganda that the 1956 film “Invasion of the Body Snatchers” tried to say it originally stood for. So I explain how body snatcher horror better reflects the evolution of whiteness to Americanization, how it uses racism and respectability politics to claim the bodies and cultures of black people and other people of color, and how Get Out is a better reflection of the loss of individualism because of that fact.
