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Author:   Cynthia J. Miller ,  A. Bowdoin Van Riper
Publisher:   McFarland & Co Inc
Imprint:   McFarland & Co Inc
Dimensions:   Width: 17.80cm , Height: 1.30cm , Length: 25.40cm
Weight:   0.449kg
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9781476669922

ISBN 10:   1476669929
Pages:   256
Publication Date:   07 June 2017
Recommended Age:   From 18 years
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
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Table of Contents

Table of Contents Acknowledgments Introduction Part 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) Part 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 Hellbound Religion in the Hellraiser Films (Lu´cio ­Reis-Filho) Redeeming the ­Demon-Child and the ­Eco-Horror Fairy Tale: Ambivalent Theosis and Ambiguous Eucatastrophe in Guillermo del Toro’s Hellboy Films (Daniel Otto 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) Part 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) About the Contributors Index

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"""An overall detailed analysis of the genre of divine horror... Highly informative... Divine Horror explores the many dynamics and dimensions of divine horror in modern day cinema and will be of interest to both upper-level high school as well as college-level students.""--Journal of American Culture"

""An overall detailed analysis of the genre of divine horror... Highly informative... Divine Horror explores the many dynamics and dimensions of divine horror in modern day cinema and will be of interest to both upper-level high school as well as college-level students.""--Journal of American Culture ""An overall detailed analysis of the genre of divine horror... Highly informative... Divine Horror explores the many dynamics and dimensions of divine horror in modern day cinema and will be of interest to both upper-level high school as well as college-level students.""-Journal of American Culture

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Cynthia J. Miller, a cultural anthropologist focusing on popular culture and visual media, teaches in the Marlboro Institute for Liberal Arts at Emerson College in Boston. She is the editor or coeditor of twenty scholarly volumes, many exploring the horror genre. A. Bowdoin Van Riper is an historian specializing in depictions of science and technology in popular culture. He is the reference librarian at the Martha’s Vineyard Museum, and is the author or editor of a wide range of volumes, ranging from science to science fiction to horror.

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