Sacred Terror: Religion and Horror on the Silver Screen

ISBN-13: 9781481304900 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 325 str.

Douglas E. Cowan

Opis

"Sacred Terror" examines the religious elements lurking in horror films. It answers a simple but profound question: When there are so many other scary things around, why is religion so often used to tell a scary story? In this lucid, provocative book, Douglas Cowan argues that horror films are opportune vehicles for externalizing the fears that lie inside our religious selves: of evil; of the flesh; of sacred places; of a change in the sacred order; of the supernatural gone out of control; of death, dying badly, or not remaining dead; of fanaticism; and of the power and the powerlessness of religion."

Spis treści

• Preface
• 1. Tickets, Please
• An Introduction to Sacred Terror
• 2. Lying at the Heart of Horror
• Religion and Horror on the Silver Screen
• 3. Angels to Some, Demons to Others
• Fear of Change in the Sacred Order
• 4. No Sanctuary
• Ambivalence and the Fear of Sacred Places
• 5. Stalking Life
• The Fear of Death and of Dying Badly
• 6. Mainstreaming Satan
• Fear of Supernatural Evil Internalized and Externalized
• 7. The Unholy Human
• Fear of Fanaticism and Fear of the Flesh
• 8. Curtain and House Lights
• Possibility Persists in the World Outside the Frame
• Filmography
• Bibliography
• Index