In this episode, I spoke with author Robert Guffey about his Book "Hollywood Haunts the World". In Hollywood Haunts the World: An Investigation into the Cinema of Occulted Taboos, 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.
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Episode 425-Superman Wars with William Bernhart
Episode 424- Bugsy
Episode 423-With Author Mayukh Sen- "Love Queenie: Merlie Oberon, Hollywood's First South Asian Star"
Episode 422- "Vietnam on the Big Screen: How the Vietnam War Changed Hollywood"
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