[Commlist] New Book: Demon Possession and Sexual Violence in Post-Great Recession American Horror Cinema

New Publication:
*Demon Possession and Sexual Violence in Post-Great Recession American 
Horror Cinema *(University of Wales Press)
By Máiréad Casey
This volume examines American horror films as key sites for exploring 
contemporary anxieties around gender, power and trauma. In this 
groundbreaking study, the author traces the resurgence of 
demon-possession narratives in US cinema following the 2008 financial 
crisis – a period marked by intensified misogyny, the rise of 
fourth-wave feminism, and shifting representations of sexual violence. 
Through incisive analysis of films such as /Deliver Us from 
Evil/ (2014),/ The Neon Demon/ (2016) and /The Scary of 
Sixty-First/ (2021), this study explores how the possessed body, 
particularly the possessed female body, emerges as a battleground for 
cultural fears about sexuality, violence and agency. Demon Possession 
demonstrates how demon-possession films reflect, reproduce and sometimes 
challenge dominant narratives about sexual violence and victimhood. 
Reframing possession as more than merely a horror trope, this book 
offers a vital lens for understanding gender and sexual politics in an 
age of economic precarity and social reckoning.

Table of Contents:
Introduction
Chapter 1. ‘Devil Woman’: Demon-Possession and Popular Misogyny in 
Post-Recession American Cinema
Chapter 2. ‘Street Angel, House Devil’: Male Possession Narratives and 
Gender-Based Violence
Chapter 3. Possessed Professions: Demon Possession, Creative Labour and 
the #MeToo Movement
Chapter 4. Believing Women? Female-Authorship and Demon-Possession Film
Conclusion: Raising Consciousness by Raising Hell
Notes

Copies can be bought directly from the publisher here: 
https://www.uwp.co.uk/book/demon-possession-casey/ 
<https://www.uwp.co.uk/book/demon-possession-casey/>

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