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Haunted House Films Are Really About the Nightmares of Gentrification

By Sam J. Miller, PopPolitics.com. Posted October 31, 2007.


The plots of haunted house films frequently portray gentrifiers as innocent victims and the people they have displaced as monsters.
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Sam J. Miller is a writer and community organizer. For the past three years he has organized homeless people to successfully fight for changes in city housing policy. A graduate of Rutgers University, where he majored in cinema studies, he lives in the Bronx with his partner.


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