Supernatural In Films Of Contemporary American Culture

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Film world will be Mundane and ordinary if it didn't include the occurrence of supernatural. Looking at just people interacting with each other is not what we desire anymore. It is same as everything people get tired of the same thing, therefore, people created something that we don't see on the real world. The only way to see things that are not real in real life is through Virtual world such as TV. TV became the great part of contemporary American culture, specifically movie films. Therefore, I would like to examine how films, more specifically supernatural in films tell us about contemporary American culture, and why are there so many of them. In films of contemporary American culture, the supernatural has existed for decades, changed throughout

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