Papers by Jerome P Dent, Jr.
Journal of Cinema and Media Studies, 2024
This article juxtaposes the film Get Out with visual media ostensibly within and outside of the f... more This article juxtaposes the film Get Out with visual media ostensibly within and outside of the film’s genre to expand our understanding of horror, the psychoanalytics of spectatorship and identification, and the work of critical race theory. Yoking together horror and the slave narrative, I highlight the moments when identification shifts between the protagonist and the antagonist, a subject split that engenders neither wholesale resistance nor complete identification but an irresistible collusion between both.
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New Review of Film and Television, 2024
This article endeavors to critically examine the popular and enduring trope of the Final Girl and... more This article endeavors to critically examine the popular and enduring trope of the Final Girl and its intersections with race. Coined almost 35 years ago by Carol Clover in the article ‘Her Body, Himself’, and later explicated in her book Men, Women and Chainsaws, the Final Girl is a figure that Clover theorizes as holding the possibilities of cross-gender identification – possibilities which are conditioned by a combination of narrative and visual cues and desire. This article interrogates the assumptive logics of Clover’s Final Girl and of gender permeability, arguing for an excavation of the racial dynamics that are disavowed in the theory. Analyzing Earnest Dickerson’s Tales from the Crypt: Demon Knight and the character of Jeryline as a/the first Black Final Girl, I examine the impact of race, and more specifically Blackness, on gendered figures, narrative tropes, spectatorship, and the limitations of identificatory possibilities within the film itself and horror in general.
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InVisible Culture, 2020
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InVisible Culture, 2020
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InVisible Culture, 2020
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InVisible Culture, 2020
This interview was conducted with Hazel Carby in February 2019 with Joel Burges, Jerome Dent, Ali... more This interview was conducted with Hazel Carby in February 2019 with Joel Burges, Jerome Dent, Alisa Prince, Patrick Sullivan, and Jeffrey Allen Tucker. It was edited by Clara Auclair and Byron Fong, and annotated by Kendall DeBoer and Peter Murphy.
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Teaching Documents by Jerome P Dent, Jr.
This course is designed to bring together philosophical pessimism and black radical political the... more This course is designed to bring together philosophical pessimism and black radical political theory to engage a discussion that considers this intersection across various disciplines: art/aesthetics, literature, film, philosophy, gender and queer theories, and psychology/psychoanalysis. We will consider the writings of black theorists, activists and poets like Toni Morrison, Hortense Spillers, David Marriott, Frank Wilderson, Jared Sexton, James Baldwin, Saidiya Hartman, and Dionne Brand; along with the work of philosophers like Eugene Thacker and Graham Harman. Texts will include academic articles, prose, poetry, fiction and the visual texts will include independent and mainstream films and genre television.
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