An edition of Roman Catholicism in fantastic film
(2011)
Roman Catholicism in fantastic film
essays on belief, spectacle, ritual and imagery
by Regina Hansen
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"This collection of twenty-two critical essays addresses the relationship between Roman Catholicism and films of the fantastic, which includes the genres of fantasy, horror, science fiction and the supernatural. The collection covers a range of North American and European films. Collectively, these essays reveal the durability and thematic versality of what the authors term the "Catholic fantastic.""--Provided by publisher.
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Roman Catholicism in Fantastic Film: Essays on Belief, Spectacle, Ritual and Imagery
2011, McFarland & Company, Incorporated Publishers
in English
0786487240 9780786487240
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Roman Catholicism in fantastic film: essays on belief, spectacle, ritual and imagery
2011, McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, McFarland & Company
in English
0786464747 9780786464746
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Table of Contents
Introduction
Marvelous Catholicism. "When the saints go marching in": saints, money and the global marketplace in Danny Boyle's Millions / John Regan
Blasphemy in the name of fantasy: the films of Terry Gilliam in a Catholic context / Christopher McKittrick
Sacramentality between Catholicism and the New Age in The lord of the rings / Em McAvan
"The devil made me do it": Catholicism, verisimilitude and the reception of horror films / Rick Pieto
"The power of Christ compels you": moral spectacle and The exorcist universe / Alexandra Heller-Nicholas
Our Lady of Fatima and Marian Myth in Portuguese cinema / Paulo Cunha and Daniel Ribas
Uncanny Catholicism. Music That sucks and bloody liturgy: Catholicism in vampire movies / Isabella van Elferen
"The blood is the life": Roman Catholic imagery in vampire films of the 1930s / Ann Kordas
House of horrors: Brideshead revisited at the movies / Kathleen E. Urda
Drying blood: de-sexualization and style in Paul Schrader's Cat people / Marco Grossoli
Something in the dark: race, faith, horror and the other / Ralph Beliveau
Ridiculous and monstrous Catholicism. Reversing the Gospel of Jesus: how the zombie theme satirizes the resurrection of the body and the Eucharist / Jana Toppe
Kin Dza Dza! Christianity and its transformations across space / Margarita Georgieva
Murder mystery meets sacred mystery: the Catholic sacramental in Hitchcock's I confess / Barry C. Knowlton and Eloise Knowlton
Catholic moral teaching as a fantastic element in Gone baby gone / Brett Gaul
The "fantastic" Roman Catholic Church in Italian cinema / Victoria Surliuga
The satanic saint in Maurice Pialat's Sous the Soleil de Satan / Christa Jones
Dark imperative: Kant, Sade, and Catholicism in Jess Franco's Exorcism / David Annandale
Killer priests: The last taboo? / Shelley F. O'Brien
Mad drunken exorcists: the decline of the hero priest / Regina Hansen
Otherness in The others: haunting the Catholic other
Humanizing the self / Anabel Altemir Giral and Ismael Ibanez Rosales.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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