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Sacred terror : religion and horror on the silver screen / Douglas E. Cowan.
Van Pelt Library PN1995.9.H6 C69 2008
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Cowan, Douglas E.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Horror films--History and criticism.
- Horror films.
- Religion in motion pictures.
- Physical Description:
- x, 315 pages ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Waco, Tex. : Baylor University Press, [2008]
- 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.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 277-308) and index.
- Filmography: pages 265-275.
- ISBN:
- 9781602580183
- 1602580189
- OCLC:
- 191924217
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