Roman Catholicism in fantastic film
Roman Catholicism in fantastic film essays on belief, spectacle, ritual and imagery / [electronic resource] :
edited by Regina Hansen.
- Jefferson, N.C. : McFarland, c2011.
- ix, 294 p.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
Electronic reproduction.
Palo Alto, Calif. :
ebrary,
2011.
Available via World Wide Web.
Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.
Catholic Church--In motion pictures.
Fantasy films--History and criticism.
Horror films--History and criticism.
Science fiction films--History and criticism.
Motion pictures--Religious aspects--Catholic Church.
Catholics in motion pictures.
Electronic books.
PN1995.9.F36 / R56 2011eb
791.43/615
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
Electronic reproduction.
Palo Alto, Calif. :
ebrary,
2011.
Available via World Wide Web.
Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.
Catholic Church--In motion pictures.
Fantasy films--History and criticism.
Horror films--History and criticism.
Science fiction films--History and criticism.
Motion pictures--Religious aspects--Catholic Church.
Catholics in motion pictures.
Electronic books.
PN1995.9.F36 / R56 2011eb
791.43/615