8 - Ghostbusters Part 2: Creeponomics & Dan the Man

Ghosts Were People Too · Oct 8, 2023 · 1h 49m

Is Ghostbusters the most American movie ever made? Your Ghost Hosts answer this and other questions you never asked in Part II of II on Ghostbusters (1984). We discuss the iconic film through multiple critical lenses including immigration, invaders, Orientalism, Spiritualism, the Occult, and Ghosthunting Capitalism.

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Bibliography

“Opening Up” in Men, Women, and Chain Saws by Carol Clover

“Immigrants as aliens in the Ghostbusters films” by Zoila Clark

Orientalism by Edward Said

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