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Journal Article
Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness
2025
Overview
This article explores the subversion of the American dream in contemporary Black horror cinema, whereby the American dream is rendered inaccessible due to the historical, cultural, political, and geospatial legacies of the plantation and chattel slavery. Analyzing Get Out (Jordan Peele, 2017), Antebellum (Christopher Renz and Gerard Bush, 2020), and Bad Hair (Justin Simien, 2022), it uses a surrealism-hyperrealism-realism framework to consider the films’ portrayals of the Black, lived experience and the historical contingencies of Black anxiety, ultimately transforming the American dream into the American nightmare.
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Australia New Zealand American Studies Association
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