[ecrea] New book: Possessed Women, Haunted States: Cultural Tensions in Exorcism Cinema

New book
Lexington Books (subsidiary Rowman & Littlefield)
/Possessed Women, Haunted States: Cultural Tensions in Exorcism Cinema/.
Christopher J. Olson and CarrieLynn D. Reinhard

This monograph contains our research into the horror film subgenre of 
exorcism cinema. In this research, we examine the history of these films 
and suggest that they primarily concern themselves with the oppression 
of marginalized identities, mainly women, people of color, and the 
non-heteronormative. While the state of being possessed empowers such 
marginalized individuals, the act of exorcism removes this power and 
returns them to an oppressed state, thereby restoring the powers of a 
patriarchal, heteronormative and colonial state.


 From /The Exorcist /to the spate of movies released recently, this 
traditional exorcism narrative appears largely unchallenged in over 100 
movies. In the book, we consider reasons for the preponderance of this 
traditional exorcism narrative in our analysis of key texts from 
different historical periods.


The book is currently available from the publisher: 
https://rowman.com/ISBN/9781498519083/Possessed-Women-Haunted-States-Cultural-Tensions-in-Exorcism-Cinema#


The book is also available at online 
retailers."<https://rowman.com/ISBN/9781498519083/Possessed-Women-Haunted-States-Cultural-Tensions-in-Exorcism-Cinema#>



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