Sacred Terror : Religion and Horror on the Silver Screen /

"Why do religious elements so often lurk at the heart of horror films? And why do they scare us so? In this book, Douglas Cowan argues that horror films are opportune vehicles for externalizing the fears that lie inside our religious selves: fear of evil; of the flesh; of sacred places; of deat...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Cowan, Douglas E.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Waco, Tex. : Baylor University Press, 2008.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Horrorfilm.
Religion <Motiv>
Religion in motion pictures.
Horror films > History and criticism.
Horrorfilm
Religion > Motiv
Horror films.
Religion au cinema.
Films d'horreur > Histoire et critique.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Tickets, please : an introduction to sacred terror
  • Lying at the heart of horror : religion and horror on the silver screen
  • Angels to some, demons to others : fear of change in the sacred order
  • No sanctuary : ambivalence and the fear of sacred places
  • Stalking life : the fear of death and of dying badly
  • Mainstreaming Satan : fear of supernatural evil internalized and externalized
  • The unholy human : fear of fanaticism and fear of the flesh
  • Curtain and house lights : the persistence of possibility in the world outside the frame.

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