Christianity and Horror Cinema

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de Bryan P. Stone

Type

Essais

Sujet

Genre > Horreur

Mots Clés

horreur, religion

Année d'édition

2025 (25 juin 2025)

Editeur

Routledge

Collection

Routledge Studies in Religion and Film

Langue

anglais

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Format

Broché • 298 pages
16 x 24 cm

ISBN

978-1-032-96840-7

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Description de l'ouvrage :
Christianity and Horror Cinema explores ways that Christian beliefs, spiritualities, practices, and symbols provide the religious and existential "depths" out of which the monsters of Western horror cinema have emerged, arguing that they are, in several respects, the monsters for which Christians are responsible. Horror cinema preys on Christianity’s narrative, moral, cultural, and aesthetic traditions; reverses them; upends them; inverts them; and offends them. But it also reflects and relies on them. The book focuses on seven subgenres in the cinema of horror: ghosts, witches, the demonic or Satanic, vampires, nature horror, zombies, and psychological horror. Each chapter traces the history of that subgenre, taking up a theological analysis of ways that horror cinema capitalizes on ambiguities, contradictions, anxieties, and tensions in Christianity―for example, its treatment of the body, nature, sexuality, women, or those it deems pagan or religiously "other." The author examines a variety of films that are important for thinking about the relationship of Christianity to horror cinema. The book will be of interest to scholars of religion, theology, and film studies.

À propos de l'auteur :
Bryan P. Stone is the Leighton K. Farrell Dean of the Perkins School of Theology at Southern Methodist University, USA.

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