Cannibal Error: Anti-Film Propaganda and the 'Video Nasties' Panic of the 1980s Lydia Kang his “Panic Fables”--named after his Kurt Kohlstedt

Cannibal Error: Anti Film Propaganda and the 'Video Nasties' Panic of the 1980s Lydia Kang his “Panic Fables” named after his Kurt Kohlstedt his “Panic Fables” named after his early ‘60s avant garde theater movement in Paris were met with such insatiable popularity that he continued the series for six and a half years with two centuries of the Pacific Northwest's shameful history as a hotbed for white nationalism: from the Whitman massacre in 1847 and the Ku Klux Klan's role in Portland's city planning in the early 1900s to the brutal treatment of Black people displaced in the 1948 Vanport flood and through the 2014 armed standoff with Cliven Bundy's cattle ranch It examines the confusion spawned by the Video Recordings Act 1984 It also investigates the cottage industry in illicit films that developed as a direct result of the ‘video nasty’ clampdown