
Fear In An Age Of Real Life Horror, Revisited
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How to Engage With Fear in a Safe Way
Karen Bates: I learned with Tamir Rice the poor child shot playing with a toy gun in Cleveland that I can't watch police videos anymore so even if you tell me this 11 year old girl is only being beaten or whatever by a police officer I can't. Tana Reave Dew: Horror movies and horror fiction provides like a safe way to process the feelings of horror around things like Trayvon Martin and Michael Brown that can't get resolved in real life yeah for me um real life is so scary racism is so scary climate change is so scary that a movie about some demons and monsters and vampires listen that's nothing rightI can have fun watching that and get scared in a safe way that
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