A cinematic approach that has incisively explored the concerns with the violation of the “home” has been the horror subgenre of the “home invasion.” This approach typically sees a family relentlessly threatened by outsiders, whose only drive seems to be the extermination of the owners/inhabitants of a particular house. After the attacks on 11 September 2001, the cultural manifestations regarding representations of the “home” have accompanied an anxiety-ridden social instability, and were quick to encapsulate Western societies’ new standpoints concerning the “foreigner” in newly shaped narratives. Countless artists have contributed, with their creations, to several social debates by commenting on the threat an outsider might pose to the “home” (household, homeland, etc.). The symbol of the “home” and the relationship between host and guest have had a long tradition of depictions in fictional narratives.
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