Jordan Peele's celebrated screenplay combines horror and dark
humor to reveal the terrifying realities of being Black in America
"Blending
race-savvy satire with horror to especially potent effect, this
bombshell social critique from first-time director Jordan Peele
proves positively fearless."
-Peter Debruge,
Variety
"An
exhilaratingly smart and scary freak out about a black man in a white
nightmare."
-Manohla Dargis,
New York Times
"A major
achievement, a work that deserves, in its own way, to be viewed
alongside Barry Jenkins' Moonlight
as a giant leap forward for the possibilities of black cinema; Get
Out feels like it would have been impossible five minutes ago."
-Brandon Harris,
New Yorker
A New York Times
2019 holiday gift guide pick
Jordan Peele's
powerful thriller Get Out debuted in 2017 to enormous public
and critical acclaim, a Guess Who's Coming to Dinner? for the age of
Obama and Trump that scared audiences and skewered white liberal
pieties at the same time. Rather than rely on popular archetypes,
Peele weaves together the material realities and daily manifestations
of horror with sociopolitical fears and elements of true suspense,
and combines them with pitch-perfect satire and a timely cultural
critique. This companion paperback to the film presents Peele's
Oscar-winning screenplay alongside supplementary material.
Featuring an essay
by author and scholar Tananarive Due and in-depth annotations by the
director, this publication is richly illustrated with more than 150
stills from the motion picture and presents alternate endings,
deleted scenes and an inside look at the concepts and
behind-the-scenes production of the film. Continuing in the legacy of
1960s paperbacks that documented the era's most significant
avant-garde films--such as Akira Kurosawa's Rashomon, Jean-Luc
Godard's Masculin/Feminin and Michelangelo Antonioni's
L'Avventura--Get Out is an indispensable guide to this
pioneering and groundbreaking cinematic work.
