Episode 14: Get Out & Guess Whos Coming To Dinner

Published: May 23, 2017, 10:17 a.m.

b'Bringing racial tension home. Sarah Watt, Max Tarrant, Jeremy Downing and William Chen discuss the films Get Out (2017) and Guess Who\\u2019s Coming To Dinner (1967). The discussion touches on: uncovering racial prejudices in society that both films investigate; how the films shift social perceptions on issues like interracial marriage, and both the problematic and successful aspects of that; the gap between generations, when social expectation ideals are different between parent and child; the connection between films Night of the Living Dead (1968), Stepford Wives (1975), Dawn of the Dead (1978) and Keanu (2016); the role of the maid in both films and how it comments on the expected social position of African Americans; the strength of the performances from Catherine Keener, Alison Williams and Daniel Kaluuya; the lens from which we watch a film and investigating how things have or haven\\u2019t changed.'