Societies fear as representations in film
This is a fairly big subject firstly because fear is different for different countries in the U.K. there isn't a shared fear that a polar bear may maul us which may be the case for towns inside the arctic circle secondly because fear changes over time so representative examples from the 50s aren't likely to match ones from the 90s. Often it takes at least a little while for these fears to manifest in film because it usually needs some sort of catalyst or time for it to be worth showing it in film so that it shows as more than just an irrational fear This is Tetsuo: the iron man this is a Japanese film which represents fears in 1980-1990s Japan during this time Japan started to become a competitor in electronics bringing lots of money into the economy. The film follows the titular Tetsuo as he is cursed to become a being of Iron the fear of many in Japan in that time was that this technology would begin to trample over their rich history and culture. The film quite literally ...