Research Catalog

Title

Divine Horror : Essays on the Cinematic Battle Between the Sacred and the Diabolical / edited by Cynthia J. Miller and A. Bowdoin Van Riper.

Publication

• Jefferson, North Carolina : McFarland Publishing, Inc., Publishers, [2017]
• ©2017

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Details

Additional Authors

• Miller, Cynthia J., 1958-
• Van Riper, A. Bowdoin

Description

viii, 245 pages : illustrations; 26 cm

Summary

"This collection of new essays explores fifty years of genre horror in which manifestations of the sacred or profane play a material role. The contributors explore portrayals of the war between good and evil and their archetypes in such classics as The Omen and The Exorcist, as well as in popular franchises like Hellraiser and Hellboy"--

Subject

• Devil in motion pictures
• Demonology in motion pictures
• Horror films > Religious aspects

Genre/Form

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Machine generated contents note: pt. I The Past, Bleeding into the Present -- "What went we out into this wilderness to find": Supernatural Contest in Robert Eggers's The Witch: A New-England Folktale (2015) / Thomas Prasch -- Emily Rose Died for Your Sins: Paranormal Piety, Medieval Theology and Ambiguous Cinematic Soteriology / Kevin J. Wetmore, Jr. -- "Is this my reward for defending God's church?" Monstrous Crimes and Monstrous Punishments in Witchfinder General (1968), The Devils (1971) and The Name of the Rose (1986) / James J. Ward -- Reckoning the Number of the Beast: Premillennial Dispensationalism, The Omen and 1970s America / Brad L. Duren -- The Fall of a Domestic Angel: Horror and Hierophany in Rosemary's Baby (1968) / Sue Matheson -- "I have seen things that would make the angels weep. And they do weep": The Devil and Scotland's Religious Horrors in Let Us Prey / Eleanor Beal -- pt. II The Boundaries of Good and Evil -- God's Bloody Hand: The Horrible Ambiguity of Religious Murder in Bill Paxton's Frailty / Mark Henderson -- No Religion or Too Many: Problematizing God Told Me To / Fernando Gabriel Pagnoni Berns -- Demons to Some, Angels to Others: Eldritch Horrors and Hellhound Religion in the Hellraiser Films / Lucio Reis-Filho -- Redeeming the Demon-Child and the Eco-Horror Fairy Tale: Ambivalent Theosis and Ambiguous Eucatastrophe in Guillermo del Toro's Hellboy Films / Jack Petersen -- Binary Opposition, Subversion and Liminality in Francis Lawrence's Constantine / Catherine Becker -- Monsters of God: Negotiating the Sacred in Stake Land / Rhonda R. Dass -- pt. III Horrors of Knowledge and Faith -- "They're not in charge here": The Collision of Religion and Science in [Rec] and Quarantine / Bart Bishop -- Prince of Darkness: The Metaphysics and Quantum Physics of Evil / Matthew A. Killmeier -- The Folly of Faithlessness in Dracula Has Risen from the Grave / Martin F. Norden -- Unquenchable Thirst: Morality, Theology and Vampires in Chan-wook Park's Horror Romance / Michael C. Reiff -- Of Heresy and Horror: Stigmata / Cynthia J. Miller -- The Power of Film Compels You! Transgressing Taboos and the War on Demonic Possession in The Exorcist / Steve Webley.

ISBN

• 9781476669922
• 1476669929

OCLC

• 975364307
• SCSB-12178804

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library