Giving the Devil His Due : : Satan and Cinema / / ed. by Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock, Regina M. Hansen.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2021 English
• MitwirkendeR: Bacon, Simon,; Fowkes, Katherine A.,; Hansen, Regina M.,; Hauka, David,; Hunter, Russ,; Knowlton, Barry C.,; Knowlton, Eloise R.,; Leeder, Murray,; O'Brien, Catherine,; O’Brien, Catherine,; Palmer, R. Barton,; Sederholm, Carl H.,; Sterritt, David,; Telotte, J. P.,; Telotte, J.P.,; Weinstock, Jeffrey Andrew,
• HerausgeberIn: Hansen, Regina M.,; Weinstock, Jeffrey Andrew,
• Place / Publishing House: New York, NY : : Fordham University Press, , [2021]; ©2021
• Year of Publication: 2021
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (256 p.) :; 13 b/w illustrations

The first collection of essays to address Satan’s ubiquitous and popular appearances in filmLucifer and cinema have been intertwined since the origins of the medium. As humankind’s greatest antagonist and the incarnation of pure evil, the cinematic devil embodies our own culturally specific anxietie...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• Introduction: Giving the Devil His Due
• The Sign of the Cross: Georges Méliès and Early Satanic Cinema
• Murnau’s Faust and the Weimar Moment
• Disney’s Devils
• What’s the Deal with the Devil? The Comedic Devil in Four Films
• His Father’s Eyes: Rosemary’s Baby
• From the Eternal Sea He Rises, Creating Armies on Either Shore: The Antichristology of the Omen Franchise
• The Weird Devil: Lovecraftian Horror in John Carpenter’s Prince of Darkness
• Narration and Damnation in Angel Heart
• The Devil’s in the Details: Devilish Desire and Roman Polanski’s The Ninth Gate
• Agency or Allowance: The Satanic Complications of Female Autonomy in The Witches of Eastwick and The Witch
• Simon Bacon 149 “Roaming the Earth”: Satan in The Last Temptation of Christ and The Passion of the Christ
• Lucifer, Gabriel, and the Angelic Will in The Prophecy and Constantine
• Advocating for Satan: The Parousia- Inspired Horror Genre
• Contributors
• Index