Tríade cromática do racismo: uma análise das cores vermelho, azul e branco em Corra!, de Jordan Peele

Abstract

The present work aims to identify the colors present in the film Get Out (2017), directed by the american filmmaker Jordan Peele, and analyze how the presence and meaning of these colors either highlight or conceal the social critique related to racism in the United States of America within this production. Through a literature review on the symbolic and psychological aspects of color, this study seeks to understand how the use of red, white, and blue reinforces or conceals the political and social critique of racism present throughout the feature film. First, the paper aims to establish the groundwork with a brief overview of contemporary productions, the history of audiovisual, an understanding of the cinematic language in the horror genre, focusing on the use of colors and their materialization in cinema. Next, a brief study on the representation of social movements in U.S. cinema, with an emphasis on racism, will be conducted. Subsequently, a film analysis methodology (SOUTO, 2020) will be applied to achieve the objective. This methodology will assist in breaking down the film into scenes, identifying the colors present in these scenes, and, finally, analyzing the meaning of these colors in relation to the highlighting or concealing of the social critique regarding racism in the United States of America. The results of this study contribute to an understanding of visual language, specifically the use of colors in cinema as a means to convey political and social messages.