Robert Guffey
Author and cultural critic whose book Hollywood Haunts the World analyzes filmic treatments of social taboos across a century of cinema, exploring genres from horror to westerns and conspiracy films.
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Feb 4, 2026 • 1h 5min
Robert Guffey, "Hollywood Haunts the World: An Investigation into the Cinema of Occulted Taboos" (Headpress, 2026)
Robert Guffey, author and cultural critic who tracks a century of taboo themes in film. He traces how cinema encodes Darwinian ideas, mind-control and UFO stigma, JFK conspiracies, and the shift from coded genre metaphors to overt treatments. Short, vivid dives into horror, westerns, sci‑fi and conspiracy films reveal how marginal art seeds cultural change.
