HOLLYWOOD HAUNTS THE WORLD: An Investigation into the Cinema of Occulted Taboos

Deconstructs the most powerful taboos of the 20th century (and the initial decades of the 21st) by analyzing how disturbing and transgressive ideas, including Surrealism, Freudian and Jungian psychology, race relations, xenophobia, virtual reality, and alternate dimensions have been reflected in popular films in America and worldwide. Illustrated in color.