Sacred terror
Subtitle: religion and horror on the silver screen
By: Douglas E. Cowan.
Publisher: Baylor University Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Waco, Tex
Language: eng
Number of pages: 315
ISBN-13: 9781602580183
Subjects: Horror films -- History and criticism; Religion in motion pictures
Description: "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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Tickets, please : an introduction to sacred terror; title: Lying at the heart of horror : religion and horror on the silver screen; title: Angels to some, demons to others : fear of change in the sacred order; title: No sanctuary : ambivalence and the fear of sacred places; title: Stalking life : the fear of death and of dying badly; title: Mainstreaming Satan : fear of supernatural evil internalized and externalized; title: The unholy human : fear of fanaticism and fear of the flesh; title: Curtain and house lights : the persistence of possibility in the world outside the frame.