description: The cinema of the occult celebrates the irrational and the magical, and it offers powerful and seductive narratives of desire, transgression, and fantasy. Why are magic and demonology such attractive subjects for filmmakers? Is the cinema of the occult an expression of a cultural need for the experience of the sacred? What cultural meanings are invested in demons, witches, possessed nuns, and voodoo priests?
language: English
title: A Skin For Dancing In: Possession, Witchcraft and Voodoo in Film
titlecomplete: A Skin For Dancing In: Possession, Witchcraft and Voodoo in Film
ratings_count: 7
publisher: Praeger Pub Text