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Movie Magick - The Occult in Film (Paperback)
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Movie Magick - The Occult in Film (Paperback)
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Film is a kind of magic, a world of shadows and light, where
anything is possible and the dead come back to life. Film can
persuade us to believe in anything and special effects can work
miracles. It is therefore the perfect medium for expressing occult
phenomena, and since the beginnings of cinema history, film has
done just that. Movie Magick explores the way in which films have
been inspired by Alesiter Crowley's famous definition of "Magick"
as "the Science and Art of causing Change to occur in conformity
with Will." This naturally encompasses classic occult movies, such
as Hammer's adaptations of Dennis Wheatley's The Devil Rides Out,
but also ventures further afield into the cultural background of
the modern occult revival, exploring the way in which occult movies
have responded to the esthetics of fin de siecle decadence, the
symbolist writings of Villiers de l'Isle Adam, Wagnerian music
drama, the Faust legend, the pseudo-science of Theosophy, the
occult psychedelia of the 1960s, occult conspiracy theories and
some of the more arcane aspects of animation. The result is a
cinematic grimoire, which will appeal to both sorcerers and
apprentices of movie magick.
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