Tag: possession

• 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

• The Possession and the Traditional Exorcism Narrative

  

  This analysis presents an example of how we are analyzing the films of the exorcism cinema subgenre for how they reflect the traditional exorcism narrative, which you can read more about here and here. This analysis is based on the notes we took while watching the film, which are given here. The 2012 film The […]

  CarrieLynn D. Reinhard

  January 4, 2016

  Film Studies, Gender Studies, Sexuality

  Abyzou, dybbuk, dybbuk box, exorcism, Hasidism, Judaism, Lillith, moths, possession, The Possession

• 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

• 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

• Stigmata: Viewing the Church as Bad Guy

  

  A long time ago, in what seems like a much different life, I had a huge crush on Gabriel Byrne. I am not exactly proud of that, but he was one of many actors that I have had crushes on, and is always the case when I have a crush on an actor, I must […]

  CarrieLynn D. Reinhard

  March 4, 2015

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

  Brazil, Catholic Church, crucifix, crucifixion, exorcism, Father Assisi, Gabriel Byrne, Gospel of Jesus, Jesuit, Jesus Christ, Jonathan Pryce, Patricia Arquette, possession, pregnancy, sexuality, Stigmata, The Da Vinci Code, The Exorcist, The Last Exorcism, Vatican, Virgin Mary

• 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

• 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

• 5 Things People Believe About Demons, Exorcisms and The Spirit World

  As All Hallow’s Eve approaches, and the dark veil between the land of the living and the land of the dead lists, we in the Western world turn to concerns of all things supernatural. But it is not just Halloween that propels people to be worried about how the spiritual plan can impede in this […]

  CarrieLynn D. Reinhard

  October 30, 2014

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

  asuras, Buddhism, Catholicism, demons, dibbuk, evil, exorcism, exorcist, ghosts, Hinduism, Islamism, jinn, Judaism, Pentacostals, possession, rakshas, Satan, shaydim, spirits, The Exorcist, The Rite