Introduction -- Marvelous Catholicism. "When the saints go marching in": saints, money and the global marketplace in Danny Boyle's Millions / John Regan -- Blasphemy in the name of fantasy: the films of Terry Gilliam in a Catholic context / Christopher McKittrick -- Sacramentality between Catholicism and the New Age in The lord of the rings / Em McAvan -- "The devil made me do it": Catholicism, verisimilitude and the reception of horror films / Rick Pieto -- "The power of Christ compels you": moral spectacle and The exorcist universe / Alexandra Heller-Nicholas -- Our Lady of Fatima and Marian Myth in Portuguese cinema / Paulo Cunha and Daniel Ribas -- Uncanny Catholicism. Music That sucks and bloody liturgy: Catholicism in vampire movies / Isabella van Elferen -- "The blood is the life": Roman Catholic imagery in vampire films of the 1930s / Ann Kordas -- House of horrors: Brideshead revisited at the movies / Kathleen E. Urda -- Drying blood: de-sexualization and style in Paul Schrader's Cat people / Marco Grossoli -- Something in the dark: race, faith, horror and the other / Ralph Beliveau -- Ridiculous and monstrous Catholicism. Reversing the Gospel of Jesus: how the zombie theme satirizes the resurrection of the body and the Eucharist / Jana Toppe -- Kin Dza Dza! Christianity and its transformations across space / Margarita Georgieva -- Murder mystery meets sacred mystery: the Catholic sacramental in Hitchcock's I confess / Barry C. Knowlton and Eloise Knowlton -- Catholic moral teaching as a fantastic element in Gone baby gone / Brett Gaul -- The "fantastic" Roman Catholic Church in Italian cinema / Victoria Surliuga -- The satanic saint in Maurice Pialat's Sous the Soleil de Satan / Christa Jones -- Dark imperative: Kant, Sade, and Catholicism in Jess Franco's Exorcism / David Annandale -- Killer priests: The last taboo? / Shelley F. O'Brien -- Mad drunken exorcists: the decline of the hero priest / Regina Hansen -- Otherness in The others: haunting the Catholic other -- Humanizing the self / Anabel Altemir Giral and Ismael Ibanez Rosales.
Summary:
"This collection of twenty-two critical essays addresses the relationship between Roman Catholicism and films of the fantastic, which includes the genres of fantasy, horror, science fiction and the supernatural. The collection covers a range of North American and European films. Collectively, these essays reveal the durability and thematic versality of what the authors term the "Catholic fantastic.""--Provided by publisher.
This resource is supported by the Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act as administered by State Library of Iowa.