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Named 'Best Screenplay of the 21st Century (So Far!)' * Writer's Guild of America * This svelte, softcover, pocket-sized volume memorializes Peele’s Oscar-winning script for the first time in print. Proceeding from a new foreword by Peele, 150 gorgeous black-and-white stills thread through the screenplay and into an appendix rich with brand-new material, including cut dialogue, deleted scenes, and Peele’s annotations on the whole production. But the Annotated Screenplay’s most ingenious intervention into the dense critical discourse around Get Out was to tap Tananarive Due to author its proper introduction, an essay titled “Get Out and the Black Horror Aesthetic.” Due is a leading scholar in the emerging study of Black horror, and even teaches a course at UCLA on the subject called “The Sunken Place.” [...] This new framing unlocks a deeper level of engagement with the film... -- Ryan Coleman * Los Angeles Review of Books * Blending horror and dark humour, the director’s multi award-winning screenplay reveals the terrifying realities of racism in America. Famously, Peele has described his directorial debut as a “documentary”. Now, the annotated version gives fans the opportunity to learn more about Peele’s screenwriting process. -- Vivian Yeung * Crack * Peele’s 2017 thriller made the director’s name and won the Oscar for best original screenplay. Now the script is available in book form, illustrated with stills. -- Keith Bradsher * New York Times * Reading the notes, which are extracted from a thoughtful but very conversational interview Peele did for the book...makes you feel like you’re watching the movie with Peele himself. -- Naomi Elias * Film School Rejects * [In Get Out: the Annotated Screenplay,] Peele uncovers additional subtle clues and allusions in the flm that may not be essential knowledge but give insight on the construction of the characters, their psyches, and ultimately their interactions. -- Ina Archer * Film Comment * Dive deeper into the Sunken Place with this dissection of Jordan Peele’s Oscar-winning screenplay, including dialogue from deleted scenes and an essay on the black horror aesthetic. -- Mekado Murphy * New York Times: 2019 Holiday Gift Guide *

Dive deeper into the Sunken Place with this dissection of Jordan Peele's Oscar-winning screenplay, including dialogue from deleted scenes and an essay on the black horror aesthetic.--Mekado Murphy New York Times: 2019 Holiday Gift Guide [In Get Out: the Annotated Screenplay, ] Peele uncovers additional subtle clues and allusions in the flm that may not be essential knowledge but give insight on the construction of the characters, their psyches, and ultimately their interactions.--Ina Archer Film Comment Reading the notes, which are extracted from a thoughtful but very conversational interview Peele did for the book...makes you feel like you're watching the movie with Peele himself.--Naomi Elias Film School Rejects Peele's 2017 thriller made the director's name and won the Oscar for best original screenplay. Now the script is available in book form, illustrated with stills.--Keith Bradsher New York Times

Dive deeper into the Sunken Place with this dissection of Jordan Peele's Oscar-winning screenplay, including dialogue from deleted scenes and an essay on the black horror aesthetic.--Mekado Murphy New York Times: 2019 Holiday Gift Guide [In Get Out: the Annotated Screenplay, ] Peele uncovers additional subtle clues and allusions in the flm that may not be essential knowledge but give insight on the construction of the characters, their psyches, and ultimately their interactions.--Ina Archer Film Comment Reading the notes, which are extracted from a thoughtful but very conversational interview Peele did for the book...makes you feel like you're watching the movie with Peele himself.--Naomi Elias Film School Rejects

Dive deeper into the Sunken Place with this dissection of Jordan Peele's Oscar-winning screenplay, including dialogue from deleted scenes and an essay on the black horror aesthetic.--Mekado Murphy New York Times: 2019 Holiday Gift Guide

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