context1: The Great American Snuff Film tries to take the viewer inside the mind of a killer who seeks revenge for his abusive foster home upbringing, by kidnapping two girls to make a snuff film. Mute Witness (1994) depicts the <strong>heroine</strong>'s discovery of a snuff film in progress. Strange Days (1995) revolves around several snuff films involving murders of prostitutes and high-profile African American civil rights <strong>heroes</strong>.
context2: Many of the songs are about seeing and reaching for light, whether they be the light of day or the light of death. So in a way the album is more about the way people felt about, cared about and thought about Amelia Earhart and her death. That she is still considered a <strong>heroine</strong> of aviation and a distinctly American <strong>hero</strong> keeps the mystery of what happened to her in the greater cultural imagination.