Us and the Tethered of Genesis
In Jordan Peele’s 2019 film Us, each individual has a doppelgänger living underground, known as a "Tethered," who lives a life of deprivation so that their above-ground counterpart may live comfortably. While Jeremiah 11:11 is frequently used as an explicit intertext throughout the film, t...
| Subtitles: | Twenty More Years of Bible and Film |
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
| Check availability: | HBZ Gateway |
| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
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2025
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| In: |
Biblical interpretation
Year: 2025, Volume: 33, Issue: 4/5, Pages: 440-457 |
| Further subjects: | B
Bible and Film
B Us (2019 film) B Cain and Abel B Horror B Genesis B Jordan Peele B doppelgänger |
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Volltext (lizenzpflichtig) Volltext (lizenzpflichtig) |
| Summary: | In Jordan Peele’s 2019 film Us, each individual has a doppelgänger living underground, known as a "Tethered," who lives a life of deprivation so that their above-ground counterpart may live comfortably. While Jeremiah 11:11 is frequently used as an explicit intertext throughout the film, the subtext connects the film’s events to the sibling stories of Genesis. Like the Tethered, the unfavored siblings of Genesis find themselves cast out of God’s favor for reasons that remain unstated by the text. Reading Us and Genesis in conversation with each other allows for a complicated interplay between the privileged and unprivileged, and a reflection on the arbitrariness of the divine choices that allow for this situation. |
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| ISSN: | 1568-5152 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Biblical interpretation
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1163/15685152-33450008 |
