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A review by mattbowes
Satanic Panic: Pop-Cultural Paranoia in the 1980s by Leslie Hatton, Gil Nault, Kier-la Janisse, Liisa Ladouceur, Gavin Baddeley, Paul Corupe, Forrest Jackson, Kurt Halfyard, David Flint, David Canfield, Adrian Mack, Joshua Graham, David Bertrand, Alexandra Heller-Nicholas, Wm. Conley, Alison Lang, Samm Deighan, John Schooley, Kevin L. Ferguson, Adam Parfrey, Alison Nastasi, Ralph Elawani, Stacy Rusnak
4.0
While it may have laid down roots in the late Sixties and Seventies, with the blockbuster success of films like Rosemary’s Baby (1968) and The Omen (1976), or with the resurgence of interest in occult matters after the founding of Anton LaVey’s Church of Satan, the “Satanic Panic” is really a relic of the Eighties. It was a time when such seemingly innocuous things as rockstars prancing around in tights and big hair, half hour toy commercials masquerading as cartoons or kids rolling dice while sitting around a table were taken as portents of a coming battle for the soul of the world.
The second in indie publishing company Spectacular Optical‘s slate of pop culture analysis texts, Satanic Panic is an essential resource for understanding this momentary mass hysteria, exploring in depth both the causes of the craze and the effects it had on Eighties society and beyond. The book is a collection of essays from twenty-odd contributors, examining the way paranoia about Satanic worshippers and a rising interest in the occult influenced the publishing world, film, music, and television. Satanic Panic then goes on to demonstrate a variety of evangelical Christian reactions to a supposed rising tide of evil entertainment, as well as the Panic’s eventual spread across the globe.
To read the rest of my review, check out http://thisnerdinglife.com/2015/10/08/review-satanic-panic-pop-cultural-paranoia-in-the-1980s-2015/.
The second in indie publishing company Spectacular Optical‘s slate of pop culture analysis texts, Satanic Panic is an essential resource for understanding this momentary mass hysteria, exploring in depth both the causes of the craze and the effects it had on Eighties society and beyond. The book is a collection of essays from twenty-odd contributors, examining the way paranoia about Satanic worshippers and a rising interest in the occult influenced the publishing world, film, music, and television. Satanic Panic then goes on to demonstrate a variety of evangelical Christian reactions to a supposed rising tide of evil entertainment, as well as the Panic’s eventual spread across the globe.
To read the rest of my review, check out http://thisnerdinglife.com/2015/10/08/review-satanic-panic-pop-cultural-paranoia-in-the-1980s-2015/.