W. Scott Poole’s Dark Carnivals: Modern Horror and the Origins of American Empire
As Poole states in his preface, “There lives, somewhere in our psyches where it has crouched on its haunches since the earliest human experience, a yearning for the taboo and the terrible.” Using Ray Bradbury’s phrase “dark carnival” throughout to refer to both media productions and the military-Capitalism that structures American lives, Poole claims that while we may want our “dark carnivals” to be places to visit “desired only because we can leave”—we are trapped, “denizen(s) of the dark carnival.”
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