Animacy, Agency and Animatedness: The Human-Animal Transformation in Sorry to Bother You

This paper investigates the racialized affect of ‘animatedness’ (Ngai) as presented in the film Sorry to Bother You (2018). In this dark comedy, workers’ subjectivities are constituted by their labor: Their subjectivity is presented as plastic, by formal techniques such as the use of Claymation or...

Full description

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Maria Menzel
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Regensburg: Current objectives in postgraduate American studies c/o Universität Regensburg/Institut für Anglistik und Amerikanistik 2024-08-01
Series:Current Objectives of Postgraduate American Studies
Subjects:
Online Access:https://copas.uni-regensburg.de/index.php/copas/article/view/389