My new post on Politics Daily / Woman Up:
They say we know who we are by the myths we cherish.
I’d planned to weigh in on the third-season finale of “Mad Men,” a show that is both a valentine to and a critique of the 1960s. But I got sidetracked by another kind of myth – a tale of horror.
Last night I watched the 2008 film “Quarantine.” Whether filmmakers intend it or not, all horror movies tap into the anxieties of their times. With “Quarantine,” it’s the war we’re now fighting.
Japan’s 1954 “Godzilla” put the trauma of the atomic age on display for all the world to see. The 1956 film “Invasion of the Body Snatchers” reflected the fear of communism taking over our minds, bodies and ultimately our country, and 1968’s “Night of the Living Dead” reacted to the assassinations of Martin Luther King and Malcolm X…
Read the rest on AOL. Shockumentary: A Horror Genre for Our Times.
