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       In the article, “Can One Get Out” Ryan Poll breaks down the different horror elements of the movie Get Out and how it resonates with some more than others. He also dissects how this genre works in spreading the message of the movie and targeting audiences. This is because for the white audience members they imagine the world without horror whilst the black audience members see the horror in the movie as the horror of the actual world. However, specifically Poll discusses concepts such as Afro-pessimism, Post-blackness and more. According to Poll, Post-blackness is meant for people to try and break from the past and try not to focus on the “ghosts” of racialize slavery. This can be seen within the narrative of Chris who fails to realize he is intertwined into a story of slavery. Chris lives one of the many lives that black people could live in a Post-black society where being authentically black can mean anything. For him he is relatively wealthy living in a n...

  One key difference between Benjamin's point regarding culture industries and Adorno and Horkheimer is Benjamin points out more of the positives that come from these culture industries. Throughout the essay Benjamin compares different art forms together like film and theater and paintings and photography. By doing this he was able to highlight the many benefits from these culture industries, regardless of their mass production and manipulating ways. An example of this can be seen when he is describing what a camera can do. He says, “Evidently a different nature opens itself to the camera than opens to the naked eye”(Benjamin 16). Here, Benjamin highlights how the advancements in technology and the camera work in films create this new reality that can not be seen by the normal eye. He is highlighting these more positive characteristics about the culture industry with the new camera styles and how film can lead us to travel into new places. The use of slow motion and other camera wo...