Get Out now has its own online class about black horror

Jordan Peele’s Oscar-nominated film Get Out now has its own webinar. It’s called “The Sunken Place: Racism, Survival, and Black Horror Aesthetic,” based on the UCLA course on black horror put together by Professor and author Tananarive Due and her husband, science fiction writer and lecturer Steven Barnes last year. Due and Barnes’ six-week online course that discusses works including 1972’s Blacula, Toni Morrison’s Beloved, and the 1968 zombie film Night of the Living Dead, which Peele named as one of his biggest influences.

Now, anyone with internet access can buy access to the online seminar, which costs $348, The course began on January 13th, but newcomers can catch up with streams of previous class sessions. The webinar’s name is a...

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