Film Screening: Get Out

This Universal Pictures 2017 horror thriller, written and directed by Jordan Peele, has been critically acclaimed as one of the best films of the 21st century. When a young African American man visits his white girlfriend’s family estate to meet her parents, the couple find themselves embroiled in a sinister conspiracy in which not everyone gets out alive. (R, 1h 44m)

Free for Appleton and Film Series members; included with museum admission fee for nonmembers. For more details on CF’s Ira Holmes International Film Series, visit cf.edu/filmseries.

Feb. 15, 12:30 p.m., CF Ocala Campus
Building 8, Room 810, or Zoom
“Get Out” Film Talk with Gilbert B. Rodman

Gilbert B. Rodman is associate professor of Communication Studies at the University of Minnesota. He is the author of “Why Cultural Studies?” (Wiley Blackwell, 2015), is the editor of The “Race and Media Reader” (Routledge, 2014) and the coeditor of “Race in Cyberspace” (Routledge, 2000). He is the former chair of the Association for Cultural Studies and the founder/manager of the CULTSTUD-L listserv. He is currently working on a book entitled “Creating While Black: A Racial History of Copyright in the United States.” Learn more