LAS Dean's Lecture Series: Novotny Lawrence

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Date/Time:Thursday, 05 Nov 2020 at 6:00 pm
Location:Online
Cost:Free
URL:https://events.las.iastate.edu/2020/09/0...y-lawrence
Phone:515-294-7740
Channel:College of Liberal Arts and Sciences
Categories:Diversity Lectures
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"White Mansions, Black Bodies: Jordan Peele's 'Get Out' and the New Age Slave Plantation," ISU associate professor of communications Novotny Lawrence. This lecture will discuss Jordan Peele's horror thriller "Get Out," demonstrating ways the director employs traditional filmmaking storytelling tropes to examine contemporary racial politics. Peele uses the cinema as a tool for social activism. A live Q&A will follow the lecture.

See the movie before the lecture
"Get Out" will showing Oct. 29-Nov. 1 (1 p.m., 101 Carver Hall) as part of the Cyclone Cinema fall lineup. Face coverings are required.