{"product_id":"lambros-fatsis-policing-the-beats-copy","title":"Robert Guffey: Hollywood Haunts The World","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eHeadpress, 2025, softcover, 368 pages, 12.7 x 19 cm\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe secret history of the world can be decoded through film.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eIn Hollywood Haunts the World: An Investigation into the Cinema of Occulted Taboos\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, 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.\u003cbr\u003ePopular films and TV shows that fall under Robert Guffey’s cutting-edge scrutiny include Guillermo del Toro’s \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eNightmare Alley\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, Larry Wade Carell’s \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eGirl Next\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, Matt Shakman’s \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eWandaVision\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, Anthony and Joe Russo’s \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eAvengers: Infinity War\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, Scott Derrickson’s \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eDr. Strange\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, Steven Spielberg’s \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eReady Player One\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, Jennifer Kent’s \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eThe Babadook\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, Christopher Nolan’s \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eInception\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, Stanley Kubrick’s \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eEyes Wide Shut\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, Vince Gilligan’s \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eBreaking Bad\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, Oliver Stone’s \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eJFK\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, Mark Frost and David Lynch’s \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eTwin Peaks\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, John Carpenter’s \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eThey Live\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, Alan Pakula’s \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eThe Parallax View\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, John Frankenheimer’s \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eThe Manchurian Candidate\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, Jack Arnold’s \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eIt Came from Outer Space\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, Edgar G. Ulmer’s \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eThe Man from Planet X\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, Robert Florey’s \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eMurders in the Rue Morgue\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, Buster Keaton’s \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eSherlock Jr.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, and Victor Sjöström’s \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eThe Phantom Carriage\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"ICA Bookstore","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57564080898432,"sku":null,"price":22.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0012\/4390\/6109\/files\/71kfbVuNO5L._SY522_4cf0a28a-f704-4afa-9d77-132f53276e3f.jpg?v=1773065946","url":"https:\/\/shop.ica.art\/products\/lambros-fatsis-policing-the-beats-copy","provider":"ICA Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}