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Antebellum (Bush and Renz 2020)
This film received just a 28% rating from critics, and 53% from audiences on Rotten Tomatoes. In contrast we found the film to be exceptionally good in most ways. We discuss the possible discrepancies between our appreciation and that of others. A film that presses the boundaries of horror in positive ways paved by Get Out.
SPOILERS IN THIS EPISODE
Antebellum (Bush and Renz 2020) – please watch the film before listening!
TOPIC INDEX – Antebellum (Bush and Renz 2020) (times are approximate)
0:35 – Introductions
4:50 – Discussion begins
4:50 – The film’s reputation vs our experience
9:00 – Laura’s take on genre,
13:30 – Marshall explores a grand theory of the film
17:00 – showing and telling intersectionality
20:05 – sociology scene – the biography and history connection of the sociological imagination
29:00 – Laura’s assessment of popular reviews
37:00 – Django Unchained, the spectacle of black bodies, and character development
45:00 – V’s exceptionalism
55:00 – the trailer and the ending
1:04:30 – racial privilege and exploitation
1:07:15 – Grant’s genre primer
1:15:00 – Dawn being hit on
54:10 – Grading the film using the Collective Nightmares Evolving Rubric of Social Responsibility
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“Horror films are our collective nightmares.”
Episode 77
Keywords
horror, podcast, sociology, race, racial privilege, exploitation, black bodies, slavery, civil war, rape, sexual assault, biography and history, sociological imagination, Get Out, genre,