Roman Catholicism in fantastic film
Subtitle: essays on belief, spectacle, ritual and imagery
By: edited by Regina Hansen
Publisher: McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers; McFarland & Company
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Jefferson, N.C
Language: eng
Number of pages: 294
ISBN-13: 9780786464746
Subjects: Motion pictures; Fantasy films; Catholics in motion pictures; History and criticism; Horror films; In motion pictures; Science fiction films; Catholic Church
Description: "This collection of twenty-two critical essays addresses the relationship between Roman Catholicism and films of the fantastic, which includes the genres of fantasy, horror, science fiction and the supernatural. The collection covers a range of North American and European films. Collectively, these essays reveal the durability and thematic versality of what the authors term the "Catholic fantastic.""--Provided by publisher.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Marvelous Catholicism. "When the saints go marching in": saints, money and the global marketplace in Danny Boyle's Millions / John Regan; title: Blasphemy in the name of fantasy: the films of Terry Gilliam in a Catholic context / Christopher McKittrick; title: Sacramentality between Catholicism and the New Age in The lord of the rings / Em McAvan; title: "The devil made me do it": Catholicism, verisimilitude and the reception of horror films / Rick Pieto; title: "The power of Christ compels you": moral spectacle and The exorcist universe / Alexandra Heller-Nicholas; title: Our Lady of Fatima and Marian Myth in Portuguese cinema / Paulo Cunha and Daniel Ribas; title: Uncanny Catholicism. Music That sucks and bloody liturgy: Catholicism in vampire movies / Isabella van Elferen; title: "The blood is the life": Roman Catholic imagery in vampire films of the 1930s / Ann Kordas; title: House of horrors: Brideshead revisited at the movies / Kathleen E. Urda; title: Drying blood: de-sexualization and style in Paul Schrader's Cat people / Marco Grossoli; title: Something in the dark: race, faith, horror and the other / Ralph Beliveau; title: Ridiculous and monstrous Catholicism. Reversing the Gospel of Jesus: how the zombie theme satirizes  the resurrection of the body and the Eucharist / Jana Toppe; title: Kin Dza Dza! Christianity and its transformations across space / Margarita Georgieva; title: Murder mystery meets sacred mystery: the Catholic sacramental in Hitchcock's I confess / Barry C. Knowlton and Eloise Knowlton; title: Catholic moral teaching as a fantastic element in Gone baby gone / Brett Gaul; title: The "fantastic" Roman Catholic Church in Italian cinema / Victoria Surliuga; title: The satanic saint in Maurice Pialat's Sous the Soleil de Satan / Christa Jones; title: Dark imperative: Kant, Sade, and Catholicism in Jess Franco's Exorcism / David Annandale; title: Killer priests: The last taboo? / Shelley F. O'Brien; title: Mad drunken exorcists: the decline of the hero priest / Regina Hansen; title: Otherness in The others: haunting the Catholic other; title: Humanizing the self / Anabel Altemir Giral and Ismael Ibanez Rosales.