Horror and Science Fiction Cinema and Society: American Culture and Politics in the Cold War and After Through the Projector Lens

by Martin Harris

Examining how horror and science fiction films from the 1950s to the present invent and explore fictional "us-versus-them" scenarios, this book analyzes how such films employ allegory and/or satire to interrogate the causes and consequences of increasing polarization in American politics and society.

Starting with the killer ants film with an anti-communist subtext Them (1954) and concluding with Jordan Peele's social horror film...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1032444606
• ISBN13: 9781032444604
• Release Date: September 2024
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 296 Pages