In the Belly of the Beast: On the Sublimity of Excess in Jordan Peele's "Nope"

Name: In the Belly of the Beast: On the Sublimity of Excess in Jordan Peele's "Nope" — Nevada Humanities
Start: 2024-04-11T16:30:00-0700
End: 2024-04-11T18:30:00-0700
Location: Davidson Math and Science Center

Thursday, April 11, 2024
4:30 PM 6:30 PM 16:30 18:30

Davidson Math and Science Center 1055 Evans Avenue Reno, NV, 89512 United States (map)

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Join leading scholar on Black horror films, Dr. Mikal Gaines (MCPHS), for his analysis of Jordan Peele’s horror western Nope. Nope is Peele’s third feature film, which builds on the massive success of 2017’s Get Out. Dr. Gaines will help us understand the complexity of Peele’s creature feature, connecting the film to theories of Blackness, abjection, and violence that have been important to recent studies of Black horror cinema.

This is an in-person event that is free and open to the public.

A community talk back and watch party for an online film screening of Nope will take place on Tuesday April 9, from 6:00 - 8:00 pm PT over Zoom. Learn more about the film screening and watch party and register here.

This event is co-sponsored by Nevada Humanities.

Mikal J. Gaines, Ph.D, is an Assistant Professor of English at Massachusetts College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences (MCPHS) Boston. He teaches courses in Expository Writing, Introduction to Film, and Speculative Fiction and Film. His work has appeared in American Cinema of the 2010s, Fight the Power: The Spike Lee Reader, Jordan Peele’s Get Out Political Horror, Merchants of Menace: The Business of Horror Cinema, Spaces and Places of Horror, ASAP/J, Discourse, The Projector, the Journal of Cinema Media Studies, and Literature Interpretation Theory. His research areas include African American literature, film and popular culture, horror and gothic studies, and critical theory.