Holy Horror - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Holy Horror write by Steve A. Wiggins. This book was released on 2018-12-03. Holy Horror available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. What, exactly, makes us afraid? Is it monsters, gore, the unknown? Perhaps it's a biblical sense of malice, lurking unnoticed in the corners of horror films. Holy Writ attempts to ward off aliens, ghosts, witches, psychopaths and demons, yet it often becomes a source of evil itself. Looking first at Psycho (1960) and continuing through 2017, this book analyzes the starring and supporting roles of the Good Book in horror films, monster movies and thrillers to discover why it incites such fear. In a culture with high biblical awareness and low biblical literacy, horrific portrayals can greatly influence an audience's canonical beliefs.
Holy Horror
Holy Horror - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Holy Horror write by Steve A. Wiggins. This book was released on 2018-12-28. Holy Horror available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. What, exactly, makes us afraid? Is it monsters, gore, the unknown? Perhaps it's a biblical sense of malice, lurking unnoticed in the corners of horror films. Holy Writ attempts to ward off aliens, ghosts, witches, psychopaths and demons, yet it often becomes a source of evil itself. Looking first at Psycho (1960) and continuing through 2017, this book analyzes the starring and supporting roles of the Good Book in horror films, monster movies and thrillers to discover why it incites such fear. In a culture with high biblical awareness and low biblical literacy, horrific portrayals can greatly influence an audience's canonical beliefs.
Horror and the Holy
Horror and the Holy - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Horror and the Holy write by Kirk Schneider. This book was released on 2013-12-01. Horror and the Holy available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Dr. Schneider draws upon a detailed and telling analysis of eleven well-known horror stories: Dracula, Frankenstein, The Phantom of the Opera, The Fall of the House of Usher, The Invisible Man, The Incredible Shrinking Man, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, The Birds, Forbidden Planet, Vertigo, and Alien. He finds that a spiritual understanding of life can be attained through horror. Classic horror steers a middle path between fanaticism and despair: the path of wonderment. Horror teaches us that the human personality is paradoxical, that revulsion and disgust are the obverse of excitement and freedom, and that both poles are vital to individual, social, and ecological well-being.
Bad Seeds and Holy Terrors
Bad Seeds and Holy Terrors - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Bad Seeds and Holy Terrors write by Dominic Lennard. This book was released on 2014-10-09. Bad Seeds and Holy Terrors available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Since the 1950s, children have provided some of horror's most effective and enduring villains, from dainty psychopath Rhoda Penmark of The Bad Seed (1956) and spectacularly possessed Regan MacNeil of The Exorcist (1973) to psychic ghost-girl Samara of The Ring (2002) and adopted terror Esther of Orphan (2009). Using a variety of critical approaches, including those of cinema studies, cultural studies, gender studies, and psychoanalysis, Bad Seeds and Holy Terrors offers the first full-length study of these child monsters. In doing so, the book highlights horror as a topic of analysis that is especially pertinent socially and politically, exposing the genre as a site of deep ambivalence toward—and even hatred of—children.
Sacred Terror
Sacred Terror - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Sacred Terror write by Douglas E. Cowan. This book was released on 2016-04. Sacred Terror available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Sacred Terror examines the religious elements lurking in horror films. It answers a simple but profound question: When there are so many other scary things around, why is religion so often used to tell a scary story? In this lucid, provocative book, Douglas Cowan argues that horror films are opportune vehicles for externalizing the fears that lie inside our religious selves: of evil; of the flesh; of sacred places; of a change in the sacred order; of the supernatural gone out of control; of death, dying badly, or not remaining dead; of fanaticism; and of the power--and the powerlessness--of religion.
