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Volume 12, Issue 2
  • ISSN: 2042-7824
  • E-ISSN: 2042-7832

Abstract

This article draws a connection between the genre instability of Janicza Bravo’s first two short films and her subject position as a Black woman directing films about vulnerable white masculinity. In fluctuating between the tonal and genre markers of comedy and horror, (2011) and (2013) reveal the contradictions between mainstream representations that uplift flawed white male characters and how they are perceived by those they oppress.

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