Home is safe and comforting, a refuge from public life, synonymous with our very self. In mid-March I began writing my master’s dissertation on American home invasion films - at that time, I was, even more than usual, preoccupied with the idea of “home.” I was isolated in the United Kingdom, an entire ocean away from my family, and living alone in an empty dorm since most students returned to their homes after the announcement that the University of Cambridge’s spring term courses would move online. As I remained in the hauntingly vacant building, turning my attention to the topic of home invasion films - an idea that I had proposed months prior - felt incredibly strange. I watched and studied works from Manhunter (Michael Mann, 1986) and its remake, Red Dragon (Brett Ratner, 2002), to episodes of American Horror Story: Murder House (2011) and Jordan Peele’s Us (2019), all while thinking about home.
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