“We’re Americans”: The Gothic in Jordan Peele’s ‘Us’

The Gothic genre has always been concerned with the ‘Other’, a figure who predominantly represents the transgressive, who stands out for being different to hegemonic social and political ideals. At the end of the Victorian period, the fin de siècle Gothic attached this label to the ‘foreign’ figure, most canonically evident in the vampiric Count … Continue reading “We’re Americans”: The Gothic in Jordan Peele’s ‘Us’