Let me recommend Robin Wood's Hollywood from Vietnam to Reagan and its discussion of horror in the late 70s and early 80s, and Camera Politica by Douglas Kellner and Michael Ryan, for its many insights into such political implications.
My problem with political analyses of horror films is that they seem to miss what we enjoy about horror per se, and hence don't address the uniqueness of the horror genre. I don't deny that some horror films have political import, but I suspect that that import is a sidelight to horror-pleasure and not implicated in its essence (if you will excuse the expression).
"For beauty is the beginning of terror we are still able to bear, and why we love it so is because it so serenely disdains to destroy us" Rilke's First Duino Elegy
Daniel Shaw
Professor of Philosophy and Film
Lock Haven University
Managing Editor, Film and Philosophy
website: www.lhup.edu/dshaw
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