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Christianity and Horror Cinema

Christianity and Horror Cinema

Stone, Bryan P.

Hardcover

Series: Routledge Studies in Religion and Film

Film StudiesGeneral Christianity

ISBN10: 1032968400
ISBN13: 9781032968407
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Jun 25 2025
Pages: 288
Weight: 1.31
Height: 0.69 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English

Christianity and Horror Cinema explores ways that Christian beliefs, spiritualities, practices, and symbols provide the religious and existential depths out of which the monsters of Western horror cinema have emerged, arguing that they are, in several respects, the monsters for which Christians are responsible. Horror cinema preys on Christianity's narrative, moral, cultural, and aesthetic traditions; reverses them; upends them; inverts them; and offends them. But it also reflects and relies on them. The book focuses on seven subgenres in the cinema of horror: ghosts, witches, the demonic or Satanic, vampires, nature horror, zombies, and psychological horror. Each chapter traces the history of that subgenre, taking up a theological analysis of ways that horror cinema capitalizes on ambiguities, contradictions, anxieties, and tensions in Christianity--for example, its treatment of the body, nature, sexuality, women, or those it deems pagan or religiously other. The author examines a variety of films that are important for thinking about the relationship of Christianity to horror cinema. The book will be of interest to scholars of religion, theology, and film studies.

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