Agitprop

AgitProp is a podcast discussing Marxist approaches to art and culture. The show is written and performed by James Bell. This episode covers the history of US horror film between 1974 and 1985, referred to as the ‘golden age of US horror film’. This decade saw the release of many of giants of the genre: The Texas Chain Saw Massacre, Halloween, Alien and The Shining to name but a few. Crucially, this period saw a sharp rise and fall in the use of horror as a form of political commentary. In this episode, we ask the question: “Why?” If you would like to support this work, please donate when downloading or in the link below. Any donation, no matter how small, would be an enormous help. You can follow me on Twitter for more regular updates on the link below too. Script: http://tinyurl.com/y9kg6oza Donate: www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_s-xclick&hosted_button_id=VYMC6FE74RK8G Twitter: twitter.com/GlumBird Contents: Introduction [00:00] Part one: Horror as social fear [00:53] Part two: Contextualis