Jordan Peele's Get Out

<i>Jordan Peele's </i>Get Out<i>: Political Horror</i> is a collection of sixteen essays devoted to exploring <i>Get Out</i>'s roots in the horror tradition and its complex and timely commentary on twenty-first-century US race relations. The first section The Politics of Horror traces the influence of the gothic and horror tradition on Peele's film from Shakespeare's <i>Othello</i> through the female gothic and Ira Levin's <i>Rosemary's Baby</i> and <i>The Stepford Wives</i> to the modern horror film including the zombie rural suburban and body-swap subgenres of horror. The second section The Horror of Politics takes up <i>Get Out</i>'s varied political interventions-notably its portrayal of the continuation of slavery and the deformation of the black body and mind in white so-called progressive America. Contributors address Peele's film alongside African American figures such as Nat Turner W. E. B. Du Bois and James Baldwin. Taken together the essays illuminate how <i>Get Out</i> stands as both a groundbreaking intervention in the horror tradition as well as a devastating unmasking of racism in the contemporary United States.