Christopher Olson and I presented our first analysis for the exorcism cinema project at this year’s Midwest Popular Culture Association conference. We subsequently wrote the presentation as…… Read more “From Reaffirming to Challenging Traditions: A critical comparison of The Last Exorcism and The Last Exorcism Part II”
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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…… Read more “The Devil Inside: The One that Pissed Off People”
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…… Read more “A Judaic Take on Exorcism in The Possession”
The Last Exorcism Part II: Not Really Real
In our last post, we discussed the first found footage exorcist cinema, The Last Exorcism. What we have found interesting with this latest series of exorcism cinema is…… Read more “The Last Exorcism Part II: Not Really Real”
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…… Read more “The Last Exorcism But First Found Footage”
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…… Read more “The Exorcist: The One That Started It All”
The Demon Within: Tensions in Exorcism Cinema
This year, while concluding the virtual world television project with Pooky Amsterdam and continuing projects on gender and media engaging (such as My Little Pony and cross-gendered media engagings), I will…… Read more “The Demon Within: Tensions in Exorcism Cinema”
