298 Pages
20 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
298 Pages
20 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
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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... Read more
List of figures; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Chapter 1 – Ghosts; Chapter 2 – Witches, Witchcraft, Paganism, and Folk Magic; Chapter 3 – The Satanic and the Demonic; Chapter 4 – Vampires; Chapter 5 – Nature Horror; Chapter 6 – Zombies; Chapter 7 – Psychological Horror; Afterword; Index.
Biography
Bryan P. Stone is the Leighton K. Farrell Dean of the Perkins School of Theology at Southern Methodist University, USA.
