Tag: Possessed

• 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 Pop Culture Lens Episode 16: The Exorcist (1973)

  

  As I have been writing about for awhile now, Chris and I are working on a book project that explores the tensions depicted in exorcism cinema. That is, we are analyzing films that depict possession and exorcism to understand what is being said about the world through those representations. Part of this analysis has been […]

  CarrieLynn D. Reinhard

  October 29, 2015

  Film Studies, Gender Studies, Sexuality

  Abby, abjection, blasphemy, Blatty, exorcism, Exorcist II: The Heretic, exploitation, Father Karras, Father Merrin, Feminism, Friedkin, Grace: The Possession, monstrous-feminine, parody, Possessed, possession, post-colonialism, queer theory, racism, Regan, Repossessed, Seytan, slashers, The Dybbuk, The Exorcist, The Exorcist III, The Last Exorcism, The Last Exorcism Part II, The Pop Culture Lens, The Possession, the uncanny, Viral marketing

• The Unborn: Exorcism, the Holocaust, and Twins

  

  Comic book fans will undoubtedly recognize the name David S. Goyer. For better or worse, he has become synonymous with Warner Brothers’ cinematic adaptations of their DC  Comics titles. Although he gained notoriety as the writer for a Marvel cinematic adaptation, Blade (1998), his most successful writing gigs have been with Christopher Nolan on the […]

  CarrieLynn D. Reinhard

  February 6, 2015

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

  Akira, Auschwitz, David S. Goyer, dybbuk, exorcism, exorcist, Gary Oldman, Hamsa, heterochromia iridum, Jewish, Judaic, Kabbalah, mirrors, Nazi experimentation, Nazis, Possessed, possession, priest, Rabbi, Sefer Mar’ot ha-Zove’ot, The Book of Mirrors, The Conjuring, The Exorcist, The Hand of Miriam, The Last Exorcism, The Possession

• Deliver Us From Evil: The Danger of Possessing Men

  

  As we have repeatedly seen during this project we are calling Tensions in Exorcism Cinema, there appears to be a narrative made popular by the success of The Exorcist (1973). There is a reason we like to say that the 1973 movie is the one that started it all, even though there had been films […]

  CarrieLynn D. Reinhard

  December 1, 2014

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

  Africa, Amityville, animals, Blackwater Valley Exorcism, Conjuring, Deliver Us from Evil, demonic possession, demons, Eric Bana, evil omens, exorcism, Father Karras, found footage, infection, Iraq, Jerry Bruckheimer, Jesuit, Joel McHale, Jungler, minutia reception, Olivia Munn, Possessed, Ralph Sachie, saints, Scott Derricson, The Devil Inside, The Doors, The Exorcism of Emily Rose, The Exorcist, The Last Exorcism, The Rite, true stories, war

• 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 […]

  CarrieLynn D. Reinhard

  March 19, 2014

  Critical/Cultural Studies, Film Studies, Gender Studies

  Bowden, Catholic Church, Catholicism, Christopher Plummer, exorcism, exorcist, gender identity, Germans, Henry Czerny, Jesuits, Ouija, poltergeist, Possessed, Robbie Mannheim, Roland Doe, scandal, St. Louis University, The Exorcist, Thomas B. Allen, Timothy Dalton, transgender, true story, William Peter Blatty, World War II