- summary/synopsis of Thriller music video
- "in western society, white has been generally portrayed as a norm against which blackness is positioned as aberrant- threatening and perhaps even monstrous"
- 1950s small town America and horror movies
- the "other" in society
- in the late 70s came "crossover films"- stories appeal to black/white which included one/two big named black actors and white sensitivities and values
- "the wiz" to the "wizard of oz"
- Mercer reads the lyrics as sexual
- zombies= asexual
- film, dream, reality
- the black man is a monster pretending not to be
- word "zombie" originates in African voodoo
- terrorizing the neighborhood (supernatural vs. gangs)
- not scary bcd they're black, but because they're zombies!
- presents him as nice all-American boy to monster 3 times
- exclusion of black artists on MTV and B movie horror films and civil rights
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