Cockfight: A Fable of Failure - Paperback Book SSW2025-Day5-60 unblinking gaze at the American

unblinking gaze at the American dream

An FBI agent from the cult crime beat and a woman with a past linked to the Satanic Panic are drawn into a terrifying hunt for an insane killer hiding in the shadows of the underworld

1992 / 86 min / 1

Julia Nickson (Amityville: A New Generation)

Cockfight: A Fable of Failure - Paperback Book SSW2025-Day5-60 unblinking gaze at the AmericanWritten by Kier La Janisse Cover Art by Adam Juresko Design Layout by Luke Insect There is no shortage of loaded and often gendered symbolism in the sport of cockfighting. And this becomes a starting point for author Kier La Janisse (who broke new ground in film criticism with her 2012 book House of Psychotic Women) to investigate the themes of obsession, competition, mobility and nobility that dominate the hyper masculine world of Monte Hellmans