Category: Gender Studies
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[REC]2: When Possession Becomes Infectious
If you are not aware of it, then I should warn you — we are kind of in a period where zombie fervor has some what taken over American pop culture. We’ve been in this period for awhile now, over a decade in fact, tracing back to movies like Danny Boyle’s 28 Days Later… (2002),…
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Amityville II: The Possession and Incest
So…this movie. The Amityville Horror (1979) has had a long lasting cultural impact, spawning a remake in 2005 and numerous sequels, prequels, sidequels, TV references, and more. Based on a true story, and another example of a supernatural occurrence investigated by the Warrens (of The Conjuring fame), the original film focuses on a family where…
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Blackwater Valley Exorcism: Equating Demonic Possession with Sexual Assault
When The Exorcist (1973) was first released, it spawned numerous foreign rip-offs and B-movie exploitative versions. From Şeytan (1974) in Turkey to the reworking of the Italian film ‘Lisa e il diavolo’ (1974/1975)into The House of Exorcism, foreign producers created their own takes on the story of young women being possessed, with more or less…
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The Devil Inside: The One that Pissed Off People
A good found footage movie relies on its ability to trick you into thinking, just for a second, that maybe this could have been happening. We all know it didn’t — the fact that we are seeing a “movie” is the largest proof against that idea — but we still like to trick ourselves in…
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A Judaic Take on Exorcism in The Possession
One of the first movies we could qualify as being exorcism cinema was not concerned with the Catholic approach to possession and exorcism. Instead, it showed us this conflict from an older religious perspective, Judaism. In 1937, a Polish movie called Der Dibuk or The Dybbuk was released as one of the first movies filmed…
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Problems with Perceptions in Fandom
Part of the process of understanding the phenomenon of fractured fandom is to gather stories that thematically reveal its nature, such as my ongoing analysis of how My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic fans reacted to the feature film Equestria Girls and its soon-to-be sequel Rainbow Rocks. The more stories we can gather, then the more…
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The Last Exorcism But First Found Footage
Before Chris Olson and I started on this project, we were just watching horror movies. I have been fond of found footage style horror movies since The Blair Witch Project. And in my last post on the exorcism cinema project, I started thinking through why these movies are relying on tactics designed to foster a…
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The True Exorcism Stories: The Exorcism of Emily Rose
In this blog, we’ve been talking thus far about the movies that in some way relate to The Exorcist. There were the two sequels – the one with Regan and the one without her – that came from that movie, as well as the two prequels, and then the movie based on the non-fictional telling…
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Support Grayson and All Young Bronies
If you are a My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic fan, and you have not heard of Grayson Bruce, then you need to do some reading. And not just about Grayson, but about all the other young male fans of the series who are being bullied, by kids and adults alike, just because they have…
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Possessed: Based on the True Story that Inspired The Exorcist
When William Peter Blatty was looking to write a story, he learned of a family in Maryland who claimed to have been one of the few, if not the only at that time, documented and thus official cases of exorcism in the United States. Blatty contacted the exorcist in charge of the ceremony, researched the…
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