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Retrospective genre bias can misread art; AI helps recover original context

Featuring gory attacks by bloodthirsty vampires, one may be quick to categorize "Sinners" as a horror movie. That classification, however, may not be fair to the artists who created it. In "Sinners," the creators cleverly use horror as a metaphor for violent racism in the Deep South during the early...

Retrospective genre bias can misread art; AI helps recover original context
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Featuring gory attacks by bloodthirsty vampires, one may be quick to categorize "Sinners" as a horror movie. That classification, however, may not be fair to the artists who created it. In "Sinners," the creators cleverly use horror as a metaphor for violent racism in the Deep South during the early 20th century, making the film just as much a period drama as a horror film.

Originally published at Phys.org

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