Tag: patriarchy

• From Reaffirming to Challenging Traditions: A critical comparison of The Last Exorcism and The Last Exorcism Part II

  

  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 a paper that would go in a book we are developing. We just submitted the book proposal last night, and now this morning you can read this analysis […]

  CarrieLynn D. Reinhard

  November 26, 2014

  Critical/Cultural Studies, Film Studies, Sexuality

  agency, demonic possession, demons, empowerment, exorcism, exorcist, Feminism, horror, horror movies, patriarchy, possession, sexuality, The Exorcist, The Last Exorcism

• 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 […]

  CarrieLynn D. Reinhard

  June 4, 2014

  Critical/Cultural Studies, Film Studies, Gender Studies

  abortion, Catholic, Catholic Church, demonic possession, demons, Devin Faraci, documentary, exorcism, exorcist, found footage, Gameplay marketing, liberation, old school, patriarchy, possession, punishment, sexuality, The Devil Inside, The Exorcist, The Last Exorcism, Vatican, Viral marketing

• 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 […]

  CarrieLynn D. Reinhard

  May 21, 2014

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

  dibbuk, divorce, dybbuk, dybbuk box, emasculate, exorcism, Hasidic, Hasidism, innocence, Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Judaic, Judaism, masculine, masculinity, moths, patriarchy, possession, puberty, Rabbi, Rebbe, sexuality

• 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 this desire to bring to the forefront the idea that such cases of exorcism are real, either through the filming techniques or the demonstration of being inspired by […]

  CarrieLynn D. Reinhard

  May 7, 2014

  Critical/Cultural Studies, Film Studies

  Abalam, church, demonic, demons, exorcism, exorcist, found footage, horror, innocence, patriarchy, possession, power, realism, sex, sexuality, sisterhood, The Exorcist, The Last Exorcism, voodoo

• 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 […]

  CarrieLynn D. Reinhard

  April 23, 2014

  Film Studies, Gender Studies

  Abalam, Bible, Constantine, cult, demonic, demons, devils, Esther, exorcism, exorcist, Feminism, found footage, genre, horror, male oppression, Paimon, patriarchy, possession, Rosemary’s Baby, Satantic, The Exorcist, The Last Exorcism, torture porn

• 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

• 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 also be working with Christopher J. Olson on a number of projects.  One of the new ones is a consideration of the representation of women and feminist discourses in […]

  CarrieLynn D. Reinhard

  January 1, 2014

  Critical/Cultural Studies, Film Studies, Gender Studies, Uncategorized

  demonic, evil, exorcism, exorcist, Feminism, innocence, patriarchy, possession, religion, science, sexuality, The Exorcist