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Giving the Devil His Due - Satan and Cinema (Paperback)
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Giving the Devil His Due - Satan and Cinema (Paperback)
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Finalist, 2021 Bram Stoker Awards (Superior Achievement in
Non-Fiction) The first collection of essays to address Satan's
ubiquitous and popular appearances in film Lucifer and cinema have
been intertwined since the origins of the medium. As humankind's
greatest antagonist and the incarnation of pure evil, the cinematic
devil embodies our own culturally specific anxieties and desires,
reflecting moviegoers' collective conceptions of good and evil,
right and wrong, sin and salvation. Giving the Devil His Due is the
first book of its kind to examine the history and significance of
Satan onscreen. This collection explores how the devil is not just
one monster among many, nor is he the "prince of darkness" merely
because he has repeatedly flickered across cinema screens in
darkened rooms since the origins of the medium. Satan is instead a
force active in our lives. Films featuring the devil, therefore,
are not just flights of fancy but narratives, sometimes
reinforcing, sometimes calling into question, a familiar belief
system. From the inception of motion pictures in the 1890s and
continuing into the twenty-first century, these essays examine what
cinematic representations tell us about the art of filmmaking, the
desires of the film-going public, what the cultural moments of the
films reflect, and the reciprocal influence they exert. Loosely
organized chronologically by film, though some chapters address
more than one film, this collection studies such classic movies as
Faust, Rosemary's Baby, The Omen, Angel Heart, The Witch, and The
Last Temptation of Christ, as well as the appearance of the Devil
in Disney animation. Guiding the contributions to this volume is
the overarching idea that cinematic representations of Satan
reflect not only the hypnotic powers of cinema to explore and
depict the fantastic but also shifting social anxieties and desires
that concern human morality and our place in the universe.
Contributors: Simon Bacon, Katherine A. Fowkes, Regina Hansen,
David Hauka, Russ Hunter, Barry C. Knowlton, Eloise R. Knowlton,
Murray Leeder, Catherine O'Brien, R. Barton Palmer, Carl H.
Sederholm, David Sterritt, J. P. Telotte, Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock
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