A unique addition to the scant literature which examines those films that have in one way or another been associated with death. Starting with the earliest Hollywood suicides and jinxed movies, to the death cult of James Dean, to links with Charles Manson, Satanic churches, snuff culture and mass murders, plus the mysterious death of Bruce Lee, and the equally strange demise of his son Brandon, HOLLYWOOD HEX discloses the dark enigmatic connections between cinematic narratives and human catastrophe, forming a psuchogeographic study of this fascinating Dream factory.
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A unique addition to the scant literature which examines those films that have in one way or another been associated with death. Starting with the earliest Hollywood suicides and jinxed movies, to the death cult of James Dean, to links with Charles Manson, Satanic churches, snuff culture and mass murders, plus the mysterious death of Bruce Lee, and the equally strange demise of his son Brandon, HOLLYWOOD HEX discloses the dark enigmatic connections between cinematic narratives and human catastrophe, forming a psuchogeographic study of this fascinating Dream factory.