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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
Music, myth, and horror blend in this romantic,
"eerie...atmospheric" (Publishers Weekly) fantasy debut about a
teen girl who must fight a powerful evil that's invaded her Prince
Edward Island home-perfect for fans of An Enchantment of Ravens.
There's a certain wild magic in the salt air and the thrum of the
sea. Beet MacNeill has known this all her life. It added spice to
her childhood adventures with her older cousin, Gerry, the two of
them thick as thieves as they explored their Prince Edward Island
home. So when Gerry comes up the path one early spring morning,
Beet thinks nothing of it at first. But he is soaking wet and
silent, and he plays a haunting tune on his fiddle that chills Beet
to the bone. Something is very, very wrong. Things only get worse
when Marina Shaw saunters into town and takes an unsettling
interest in Gerry's new baby. Local lore is filled with tales of a
vicious shape-shifting sea creature and the cold, beautiful woman
who controls him-a woman who bears a striking resemblance to
Marina. Beet is determined to find out what happened to her beloved
cousin, and to prevent the same fate from befalling the handsome
new boy in town who is winning her heart, whether she wants him to
or not. Yet the sea always exacts a price...
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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