A Phenomenology of Gazes: Nope
A deeper appraisal of the 2022 film written and directed by Jordan Peele
“Nope” is almost aggressively defined by gazes. Anyone who has seen it will remember Daniel Kaluuya’s character, OJ, not so much deducing as intuiting, within a life-or-death scenario, that the movie’s flying saucer — really, more of an Unidentified Feeding Object, with resonances of Trevor James Constable’s work — consumes anything which grants (or app…
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