“The haunted house film mimics the workings of the real estate market…”
“The haunted house film mimics the workings of the real estate market”; the displaced homeless haunt the wealthy, urban gentrifiers. Sure, it’s late for Halloween, but I just read it:
Haunted-house escapism allows us to evade two fundamental truths: that on some level we participate in the displacement of others, and that we ourselves are vulnerable to displacement and homelessness. At the same time, the stigmatization of the homeless in media and in governmental policy has become so extreme that “we” equate the homeless with monsters. When you lose your home, you lose your membership in the human community. You become something else: a ghost, a monster.
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