Hollywood Haunts The World

The primary concern of any filmmaker, even those with hidden agendas, is to tell an entertaining story that will be embraced by the masses. This is why studying films can tell us more about history than pouring over the minutia of a thousand presidential speeches.[…] What you refuse to face defines you; it can even destroy you. Robert Guffey, from his Introduction The secret history of the world can be decoded through film. In Hollywood Haunts the World: An Investigation into the Cinema of Occulted Taboos, Robert Guffey deconstructs the most powerful taboos of the twentieth century (and the initial decades of the twenty-first century) by analyzing how disturbing and transgressive ideas involving Theosophy, Gnosticism, Freemasonry, Darwinian Evolution, Surrealism, Freudian and Jungian psychology, race relations, paranoia, UFOs, xenophobia, political conspiracies, the JFK assassination, virtual reality, and alternate dimensions have been reflected in films — both American and foreign — throughout the past one hundred years.Popular films and TV shows that fall under cutting-edge scrutiny include Guillermo del Toro’s Nightmare Alley, Larry Wade Carell’s Girl Next, Matt Shakman’s WandaVision, Anthony and Joe Russo’s Avengers: Infinity War, Scott Derrickson’s Dr. Strange, Steven Spielberg’s Ready Player One, Jennifer Kent’s The Babadook, Christopher Nolan’s Inception, Stanley Kubrick’s Eyes Wide Shut, Vince Gilligan’s Breaking Bad, Oliver Stone’s JFK, Mark Frost and David Lynch’s Twin Peaks, John Carpenter’s They Live, Alan Pakula’s The Parallax View, John Frankenheimer’s The Manchurian Candidate, Jack Arnold’s It Came from Outer Space, Edgar G. Ulmer’s The Man from Planet X, Robert Florey’s Murders in the Rue Morgue, Buster Keaton’s Sherlock Jr., and Victor Sjöström’s The Phantom Carriage. Table of Contents INTRODUCTION: Hollywood Haunts the WorldCHAPTER ONE: What’s at the End of Main Street?: The Struggle between the Artificial and the Real in Recent Gnostic Cinema        CHAPTER TWO: The Box in the Desert: Budd Boetticher, Breaking Bad, and the Twenty-first-century Western                CHAPTER THREE: The Brain(s) that Killed Kennedy: The JFK Assassination as Seen Through Film CHAPTER FOUR: One Chants Out Between Two Worlds: It Came from Outer Space, Twin Peaks, and the Legacy of Jack Parsons                                  CHAPTER FIVE: The Man from Planet X: Hollywood’s First Invasion from Outer SpaceCHAPTER SIX: Golden the Film Was—Oh! Oh! Oh!: Cinema and the Art of Perception ManagementCHAPTER SEVEN: Invisible Ghosts: The Films of Bela Lugosi as Borderline SurrealismCHAPTER EIGHT: The Suppressed Science of Dr. Mirakle: The Cinematic Ancestors and Descendents of Charles DarwinCHAPTER NINE: Here Among the Dead: The Phantom Carriage and the Cinema of the Occulted TabooAFTERWORD: With Heraclitus in a Darkened Room INDEX Key Points Analyses both popular and critically acclaimed films from a brand new perspective;Uncovers the veins of deeper meanings hiding beneath the veneer of pop culture and modern politics;Ties the occult worlds of Gnosticism, Freemasonry, the paranormal, and conspiracy theories into the complicated history of celluloid;Fans of Dan Brown and those with an intense interest in the impact of conspiracy theories will be drawn to the book;Shines a new light on uncomfortable aspects of mainstream history (from the 1920s to the present day) by sifting through the detritus of American pop culture such as often overlooked horror, science fiction, crime, western, and propagandistic B-movies of the Great Depression, WWII, and beyond. Paperback Edition Title: HOLLYWOOD HAUNTS THE WORLDSubtitle: An Investigation into the Cinema of Occulted TaboosAuthor: Robert GuffeyISBN: 978-1-915316-37-0Street Date: TBCCategory: Film & TV, Politics, Occult, ConspiraciesBinding: PaperbackSize: 203mm x 127mmPages: 374Illos: 19 colour & BW photos Special Edition Hardback As the trade paperback, except this special NO-ISBN hardback is exclusive to this website. Because it carries No ISBN number, this edition of the book is off the grid in as much as it doesn’t appear on any database, in any library, cannot be ordered through mainstream bookshops or online retailers.  Press Adam GorightlyAuthor of Saucers, Spooks, and Kooks and The Shadow Over Santa Susana: Black Magic, Mind Control and the Manson Family Mythos "Robert Guffey takes his readers for a trip behind the magic curtain to reveal the true Wizards at work — those behind the lenses, making magic and moving the secret levers. To this end, Guffey plays the role of Toto, tearing the curtain aside to reveal these flesh and bone Wizards of the military-industrial-entertainment complex, and the occult role they play in influencing our inner dreams and everyday realities.” Gary D. Rhodesfrom his Foreword “Hollywood has truly haunted the world. So too should this book, one of the best ever written on American cinema.” Alan Mooreon the author’s earlier book, Operation Mindf*ck “Jaw-dropping and essential.” Look Inside Click Image For Sample Pages Related Posts Robert Guffey Nov 3, 2024, lecture about the films of Edgar G. Ulmer recorded for Conspirinormal's Strange... Read More Is The Godsend (1980) about an evil child or parental anxieties? JENNIFER WALLIS investigates. Read More RICHARD BAYLOR is a British underground filmmaker of the 1990s. DAVID KEREKES looks at a new collection... Read More The Kingsley Amis novel, The Green Man, adapted by the BBC in 1990, is a ghost story that revolves around... 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