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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...
Caruth, Cathy - Unclaimed Experience: Trauma, Narrative, and History.
www.amazon.co.uk/Unclaimed-Ex...
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-Indi...
Lazarus, Neil (ed) -- The Cambridge Companion to Postcolonial Literary Studies.
www.amazon.co.uk/Cambridge-Co...
Le Guin, Ursula - The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas
www.amazon.com/Ones-Who-Walk-...
Newman, Stephanie -- Too Afraid To Protest
www.writingonglass.com/conten...
Rankine, Claudia - Citizen
www.amazon.co.uk/Citizen-Amer...
Rothstein, Richard - The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America
www.amazon.co.uk/Color-Law-Fo...
Sharf, Zack - Lupita Nyong’o Used Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as Inspiration for ‘Us’ Doppelgänger Voice
www.indiewire.com/2019/03/lup...
Tarrant-Reid, Linda - Discovering Black America: From the Age of Exploration to the Twenty-First Century
www.amazon.com/Discovering-Bl...
Touré - Who’s Afraid Of Post-Blackness? : What it Means to be Black Now.
www.amazon.co.uk/Whos-Afraid-...
Victims of Crime.org - Black Children Exposed to Violence and Victimization
victimsofcrime.org/our-program...
Vera, Hernan & Gordon, Andrew - Screen Saviors: Hollywood Fictions of Whiteness
www.amazon.co.uk/Screen-Savio...
Wells, H.G. - The Time Machine
www.amazon.co.uk/Time-Machine...
YouGov -- Statistics on Black American’s Fear of Police Violence
today.yougov.com/topics/polit...
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