Tag: exorcism cinema

• Der Dibuk: An Early Judaic Take on Exorcism

  

  Now it is time to watch one of the first exorcism movies, and one of the few Polish/Yiddish movies: Der Dibuk (1937). This is one of the few Yiddish language movies to come out of Poland, and it is based on a famous Polish play. Opening prolouge talking about the dybbuk, about how all spirits, […]

  CarrieLynn D. Reinhard

  November 21, 2019

  Critical/Cultural Studies, Film Studies, Gender Studies

  dibuk, dybbuk, exorcism, exorcism cinema, Judaism, Poland, sexism, sexuality, women, Yiddish

• On Studying the Other

  

  Sometimes it is very useful to go back, find those old writings, and revisit them to see the trajectory of your thoughts, and how much they have matured. In this 15-year-old piece that I wrote for a class, I can see some basic ideas I still have about people (especially given my exorcism cinema work), […]

  CarrieLynn D. Reinhard

  June 17, 2019

  Audience/Reception Studies, Communication Studies, Critical/Cultural Studies

  anthropology, audiences, enthography, exorcism, exorcism cinema, people, Psychology, reception studies, The Other

• Updating Exorcism Cinema List

  

  A year ago, Christopher Olson and I published a book on the representation of exorcisms in cinema. Possessed Women, Haunted States: Cultural Tensions in Exorcism Cinema (November 2016) was a comprehensive analysis of films across time and culture for the common themes surrounding who was the possessed and who was the exorcist. This analysis concluded […]

  CarrieLynn D. Reinhard

  November 25, 2017

  Film Studies, Gender Studies, Sexuality

  Catholicism, demonic, demons, devils, exorcism, exorcism cinema, exorcist, Islamism, Judaism, possession

• Exorcism Cinema Book Published

  

  Here it is! The Tensions in Exorcism Cinema project began in 2013, when my partner Christopher J. Olson (Seems Obvious to Me) and I watched the film The Possession and noted how common it seemed for women to be the victim of possession who needed to be saved through exorcism. We wondered, is that true of […]

  CarrieLynn D. Reinhard

  November 1, 2016

  Critical/Cultural Studies, Film Studies, Gender Studies, Sexuality

  Abby, agency, Amityville II: The Possession, Ava’s Possession, Deliver Us from Evil, demonic possession, Dominion: Prequel to the Exorcist, empowerment, exorcism, exorcism cinema, exorcism films, exorcist, Exorcist II: The Heretic, Exorcist: The Beginning, Feminism, Grace: The Possession, horror, horror movies, oppression, Possessed, possession, post-colonialism, queer theory, Repossessed, repression, Seytan, Stigmata, suppression, Teenage Exorcist, The Conjuring, The Conjuring II, The Exorcism of Emily Rose, The Exorcist, The Exorcist III, The Last Exorcism, The Last Exorcism Part II, voice, [REC]2

• The Exorcist on Fox

  

  Christopher Olson (Seems Obvious to Me) and I have been working on a project analyzing the portrayal of exorcism in cinema for the past several years. That project is about to reach fruition with the publication of our book Possessed Women, Haunted States: Cultural Tensions in Exorcism Cinema from Lexington Books this November 15th (https://rowman.com/ISBN/9781498519090). […]

  CarrieLynn D. Reinhard

  September 24, 2016

  Critical/Cultural Studies, Film Studies, Television Studies

  9/11, conspiracy, demonic possession, exorcism, exorcism cinema, horror, horror movies, Netflix, possession, post-9/11, The Exorcist

• Cataloging Exorcism Cinema

  

  For the past couple years now, we have been working on this project analyzing the tensions in exorcism cinema. We are currently writing a book on the topic, and part of the research for this book has been to track down and catalog all of the movies that in some way depict possession and exorcism. […]

  CarrieLynn D. Reinhard

  August 14, 2015

  Film Studies, Gender Studies

  demons, exorcism, exorcism cinema, exorcism movies, exorcist, horror, horror films, horror genre, possession, religion

• The Exorcist III: A Regan-less Affair

  

  Going in chronological order, we started our series on Feminist Tensions in Exorcism Cinema by examining what occurred in the movie that started it all, The Exorcist, and then continued with its bonkers, not-really-about-exorcism sequel, Exorcist II: The Heretic.  Next in this series of exorcism cinema comes the next sequel, The Exorcist III.  This movie is unique in […]

  CarrieLynn D. Reinhard

  February 19, 2014

  Critical/Cultural Studies, Film Studies, Gender Studies, Sexuality

  Bible, Brad Dourif, demons, Dracula, Dyer, exorcism, exorcism cinema, exorcist, Exorcist II: The Heretic, Gemini Killer, George C. Scott, hag, Jason Miller, Jesus, Karras, Kinderman, Legion, possession, seduction of the innocent, serial killers, slashers, The Exorcist, The Exoricst III, witchcraft, Zodiac Killer

• The Exorcist: The One That Started It All

  As part of this project on Feminist Tensions in Exorcism Cinema, we decided to watch the movies.  All of the movies, if we can get our hands on them.  We wanted to know if there were any patterns in what they were representing.  As we watched each movie, we liveblogged our experience.  Using Facebook or […]

  CarrieLynn D. Reinhard

  January 15, 2014

  Film Studies, Sexuality

  Catholicism, conversion, exorcism, exorcism cinema, exorcist, Father Karras, Father Merrin, patriarchy, Pazuzu, Regan MacNeil, rhetoric of conversion, The Church, The Exorcist, Warner Brothers, William Friedkin, William Peter Blatty, witchcraft, witches