Holy Horror

Author : Steve A. Wiggins
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2018-12-14
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781476674667

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Holy Horror by Steve A. Wiggins Pdf

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.

Author : Kirk Schneider
Publisher : Open Court
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2013-12-01
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780812698756

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Horror and the Holy by Kirk Schneider Pdf

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.

Author : Dominic Lennard
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2014-10-09
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781438453309

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Bad Seeds and Holy Terrors by Dominic Lennard Pdf

Examines the complexities and contradictions that arise when the monsters in the movies are children. 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. Dominic Lennard is Associate Lecturer in the Centre for University Pathways and Partnerships at the University of Tasmania, Australia.

Author : Matthew Bryan Gillis
Publisher : Trivent Publishing
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2021-12-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9786156405210

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Religious Horror and Holy War in Viking Age Francia by Matthew Bryan Gillis Pdf

Religious Horror and Holy War in Viking Age Francia explores how authorities in western Francia used horror rhetoric to cast Christian soldiers, who robbed the poor and the church, as monsters that devoured human flesh and drank human blood. Adapting modern literary horror approaches to medieval sources, this study reveals how such rhetoric served as a form of spiritual weaponry in the clergy's attempts to correct and condemn wayward military men. This investigation, therefore, unearths long-forgotten Carolingian thought about the dreadful spiritual reality of internal enemies during a time of political division and the Northmens depredations. Yet such horror also informed a new understanding of Christian heroism that developed in relation to the wars fought against the invaders. This vision of heroic soldiers, which included military martyrs, culminated in ideas about holy war against the pagans. Thus Carolingian religious horror and holy war together belonged to a body of ideas about the spiritual, unseen side of the church's cosmic conflict against evil that foreshadowed later medieval Crusading thought.

Author : Steve A. Wiggins
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2018-12-03
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781476633718

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Holy Horror by Steve A. Wiggins Pdf

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.

Author : James A. Haught
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Genocide
ISBN : UCSC:32106014910381

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Holy Horrors by James A. Haught Pdf

An illustrated history of religious murder and madness.

Author : Johann Peter Lange
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 668 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1871
Category : Bible
ISBN : UOM:39015073323530

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A Commentary on the Holy Scriptures: Jeremiah, Lamentations by Johann Peter Lange Pdf

Author : Emily A. Duncan
Publisher : Wednesday Books
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2020-04-07
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 9781250195715

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Ruthless Gods by Emily A. Duncan Pdf

The stunning sequel to instant New York Times bestseller, Wicked Saints Nadya doesn’t trust her magic anymore. Serefin is fighting off a voice in his head that doesn’t belong to him. Malachiasz is at war with who--and what--he’s become. As their group is continually torn apart, the girl, the prince, and the monster find their fates irrevocably intertwined. Their paths are being orchestrated by someone...or something. The voices that Serefin hears in the darkness, the ones that Nadya believes are her gods, the ones that Malachiasz is desperate to meet—those voices want a stake in the world, and they refuse to stay quiet any longer. In their dramatic follow-up to Wicked Saints, the first book in their Something Dark and Holy trilogy, Emily A. Duncan paints a Gothic, icy world where shadows whisper, and no one is who they seem, with a shocking ending that will leave you breathless. This edition uses deckle edges; the uneven paper edge is intentional.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 672 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1870
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BSB:BSB10701489

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A commentary on the Holy Scriptures by Anonim Pdf

Author : Johann Peter Lange
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 666 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1870
Category : Electronic
ISBN : HARVARD:HWRSKS

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A Commentary on the Holy Scriptures by Johann Peter Lange Pdf

Author : Steve A Wiggins
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2020-11
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1978703198

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Nightmares with the Bible by Steve A Wiggins Pdf

"Demons, as viewed through popular culture and history, are nightmares. This book considers demonic possession both historically and through the lenses of several popular movies that focus on exorcism"--

Author : Alexander Maclaren
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 502 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2024-02-26
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9783387314823

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Expositions of Holy Scripture; St. Luke, In Two Volumes by Alexander Maclaren Pdf

Reproduction of the original. The publishing house Megali specialises in reproducing historical works in large print to make reading easier for people with impaired vision.

Author : Joseph Burnley Moody
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 574 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1889
Category : Baptism
ISBN : CHI:57883264

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Debate on Baptism and the Work of the Holy Spirit by Joseph Burnley Moody Pdf

Author : William Cowper Prime
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 540 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1874
Category : Palestine
ISBN : HARVARD:32044024589731

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Tent Life in the Holy Land by William Cowper Prime Pdf

Author : Joseph Henry Allen
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1880
Category : Church history
ISBN : HARVARD:AH5E9E

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Fragments of Christian History to the Foundation of the Holy Roman Empire by Joseph Henry Allen Pdf