An edition of Sacred terror: religion and horror on the silver screen
(2008)
Sacred terror
religion and horror on the silver screen
by Douglas E. Cowan
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"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 death, dying badly, or not remaining dead; and of the power - and powerlessness - of religion."--BOOK JACKET.
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Table of Contents
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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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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