[lbo-talk] poltergeist

[Yoshie Furuhashi]

> "It doesn't take a Marxist to see Poltergeist and notice that the  
> film  attributes the cause of ghostly disturbance to the  
> desecration of  Indian burial grounds..."
>
> have been called a marxist, but i think it was a regular cemetary,  
> which was either relocated or reburied, for a new development...and  
> not an indian burial ground...
>
> fs

My sentence didn't express what I meant.  I meant that the film  
attributes the cause of ghostly disturbance to the desecration of  
cemeteries and analogizes it to the American history of dispossession  
of Indian lands (which is alluded to in the denial of the  
developer).  The name of the family who suffer from poltergeist also  
alludes to it: the Freelings.

Yoshie Furuhashi
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