Jordan Peele's 'Us' - Everything Explained and Deeper Meaning
Chapter Times:
00:13 Intro
01:22 Plot Synopsis and Ending Explained
03:18 Reading the Twist and Trauma Theory
04:00 Foreshadowing the Twist
07:41 Sci-Fi Tropes, Postcolonialism and Post-Colonial Guilt
08:56 White Savior Archetype
11:04 'Us' as 'Black Cinema'
13:07 Is Jason a tethered?
15:37 Kitty/Dahlia - Why doesn't she kill Adelaide?
16:29 Jeremiah 11:11 What's up with that?
18:26 Mirroring and the visual motif of the Scissors explained.
19:06 Deeper Meaning - What, or who do the tethered represent?
19:35 Probably the right answer
20:14 Bad Answer
20:41 Good Answer
22:20 Further Racial Commentary
23:08 Problematising Black Masculinity
24:28 Reoccurring Motif's in Jordan Peele's work.
25:28 Outro
Resources:
Ash, Erin -- ‘Emotional Responses to Savior Films: Concealing Privilege or Appealing to Our Better Selves?’
www.berghahnjournals.com/view/journals/projections/11/2/proj110203.xml
Caruth, Cathy - Unclaimed Experience: Trauma, Narrative, and History.
www.amazon.co.uk/Unclaimed-Experience-Trauma-Narrative-History/dp/1421421658/ref=sr_1_fkmrnull_1?keywords=Unclaimed+Experience%3A+Trauma%2C+Narrative%2C+and+History.&qid=1554213916&s=books&sr=1-1-fkmrnull
Froude, J.A. -- The English In The West Indies [Remember this is explicitly *an example* of Colonial Racism and needs to be understood as such.]
www.amazon.co.uk/English-Indies-James-Anthony-Froude/dp/1546922687/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=the+english+in+the+west+indies&qid=1554211922&s=books&sr=1-1
Lazarus, Neil (ed) -- The Cambridge Companion to Postcolonial Literary Studies.
www.amazon.co.uk/Cambridge-Companion-Postcolonial-Companions-Literature/dp/0521534186
Le Guin, Ursula - The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas
www.amazon.com/Ones-Who-Walk-Away-Omelas-ebook/dp/B01N0PZ35J
Newman, Stephanie -- Too Afraid To Protest
www.writingonglass.com/content/too-afraid-to-protest
Rankine, Claudia - Citizen
www.amazon.co.uk/Citizen-American-Lyric-Claudia-Rankine/dp/1555976905
Rothstein, Richard - The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America
www.amazon.co.uk/Color-Law-Forgotten-Government-Segregated/dp/1631492853
Sharf, Zack - Lupita Nyong’o Used Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as Inspiration for ‘Us’ Doppelgänger Voice
www.indiewire.com/2019/03/lupita-nyongo-us-voice-robert-f-kennedy-jr-1202052716/
Tarrant-Reid, Linda - Discovering Black America: From the Age of Exploration to the Twenty-First Century
www.amazon.com/Discovering-Black-America-Exploration-Twenty-First/dp/0810970988
Touré - Who’s Afraid Of Post-Blackness? : What it Means to be Black Now.
www.amazon.co.uk/Whos-Afraid-Post-Blackness-Means-Black/dp/1439177562
Victims of Crime.org - Black Children Exposed to Violence and Victimization
victimsofcrime.org/our-programs/other-projects/youth-initiative/interventions-for-black-children's-exposure-to-violence/black-children-exposed-to-violence
Vera, Hernan & Gordon, Andrew - Screen Saviors: Hollywood Fictions of Whiteness
www.amazon.co.uk/Screen-Saviors-Hollywood-Fictions-Whiteness/dp/0847699471
Wells, H.G. - The Time Machine
www.amazon.co.uk/Time-Machine-Penguin-Classics/dp/0141439971/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=Wells%2C+H.G.+%E2%80%93+The+Time+Machine&qid=1554213879&s=books&sr=1-1
YouGov -- Statistics on Black American’s Fear of Police Violence
today.yougov.com/topics/politics/articles-reports/2019/03/15/black-americans-police
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