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In the 1992 documentary, The Art of Horror , Clive Barker makes an extraordinary claim. He says that when the new millennium begins and we look back to discover the images that shaped twentieth-century Western culture, among the most prevalent we will find Mickey Mouse, King Kong, Fay Wray, and Hollywood actor Boris Karloff as Frankenstein’s monster (Barker 1992).
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Cooke, A.C. (2017). Introduction: Popular Panics. In: Moral Panics, Mental Illness Stigma, and the Deinstitutionalization Movement in American Popular Culture. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-47979-8_1
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