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

Wed Nov 16 23:46:32 GMT 2016




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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