Hauntings

<p><b>Explores the way that popular film brings to a sayable level that which haunts us in the media headlines.</b></p><p>We are haunted by what we cannot fully identify by what we cannot make identical to what we already are have and know. AIDS is visible as is the South Central Los Angeles riot/revolt the dead eyes of Amy Fisher the pubic hair in Clarence Thomas' Coke the Branch Davidian Compound shimmering in the distance and much more. The intensity of all this does not escape the general public. Popular film plugs into this haunting power because it attracts a mass audience. This book is about what haunts the headlines as well as the Big Screen in America during 1990-1992.</p>