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

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.

Martin Harris teaches in the American Studies program at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. He is the author of Poker & Pop Culture: Telling the Story of America’s Favorite Card Game (2019) and Leatherface vs. Tricky Dick: The Texas Chain Saw Massacre as Political Satire (2021).