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literature list on: Religion: Exorcism
number of items: 30
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#1
American exorcist: Critical essays on William Peter Blatty. Edited by Benjamin Szumskyj. - Jefferson, North Carolina; London: McFarland & Co. 2008.
Index:
 Blatty, William Peter 
 USA (United States of America) ~ USA (United States of America) 
 Religion: Exorzismus ~ Religion: Exorcism 
 Exorcist, The (Literatur ~ Literature) 
#2
Anhalt, Karen Nickel / O’Connor, Rose Ellen / Sansoni, Silvia / Sóuter, Ericka: Possessed. In: People 64. 2005. No. 13. [September 26] pp. 93-94.
Description:
 On the representation of exorcism in film. 
Index:
 Religion ~ Religion 
 Religion: Exorzismus ~ Religion: Exorcism 
#3
Audé, Françoise: Breaking the Waves: Diable d’exorcisme. In: Positif 1996. No. 428. [?D] pp. 13-15.
Index:
 von Trier, Lars 
 Breaking the Waves (1996) 
 Religion: Exorzismus ~ Religion: Exorcism 
#4
Bennet, Guy Pierre / Held, Jean-Francis: Les prêtres exorcistes en France. / Les déguisements de Satan. In: L’Avant-Scène Cinéma 2001. No. 499. [February] pp. 112-119.
Description:
 On the exorcism motif and the representation of the devil in film. Discusses especially the director’s cut of William Friedkin’s The Exorcist. 
Index:
 Friedkin, William 
 Exorcist, The - Director’s Cut (1973/2000) 
 Religion: Exorzismus ~ Religion: Exorcism 
 Religion ~ Religion 
 Religion: Teufel ~ Religion: Devil 
 Frankreich ~ France 
#5
Biodrowski, Steve: Exorcist III: The post-production exorcism effects. In: Cinefantastique 21. 1991. No. 4. [February] pp. 57, 60.
Description:
 On the special effects for that film. 
Index:
 Blatty, William Peter 
 Exorcist III, The / Exorcist III: The Legion (1990) 
 Religion: Exorzismus ~ Religion: Exorcism 
 Technik: Spezialeffekte ~ Technology: Special Effects 
#6
Cooper, Rand Richards: Exorcisms. In: Commonweal 127. 2000. No. 16. [September 22] pp. 17 ff.
Index:
 Religion ~ Religion 
 Religion: Exorzismus ~ Religion: Exorcism 
#7
Cull, Nicholas J.: Exorcisten återvänder. In: Filmhäftet 29. 2001. No. 114. [?D] pp. 45-48.
Description:
 Compares William Friedkin’s The Exorcist with the underlying novel by William Peter Blatty. 
Index:
 Friedkin, William 
 Blatty, William Peter 
 Exorcist, The (1973) 
 Religion: Exorzismus ~ Religion: Exorcism 
 Exorcist, The (Literatur ~ Literature) 
#8
Eby, Douglas: Lost Souls: Cinematographer-turned-director Janusz Kaminski on exorcising the horror cliches. In: Cinefantastique 31. 2000. No. 10. [February] pp. 30-31.
Index:
 Kaminski, Janusz 
 Lost Souls (2000) 
 Technik: Kamera ~ Technology: Camera 
 Religion: Exorzismus ~ Religion: Exorcism 
 Horror ~ Horror 
#9
Evans, Mark: Rhythms of evil: Exorcising sound from The Exorcist. In: Terror tracks: Music, sound and horror cinema. Edited by Philip Hayward. - Oakville, Connecticut: Equinox 2009. (= Genre, Music and Sound.) p. ?P.
Index:
 Friedkin, William 
 Exorcist, The (1973) 
 Religion: Exorzismus ~ Religion: Exorcism 
 Böse, Das ~ Evil, The 
 Horror ~ Horror 
 Musik ~ Music 
#10
Filimon, Monica: Loneliness, guilt, and the sin of indifference. In: Cineaste 38. 2012. No. 1. [Winter] pp. 20-23.
Description:
 Interview with director Cristian Mungiu on Dupa dealur. 
Index:
 Mungiu, Cristian 
 Dupa dealur (2012) 
 Religion: Exorzismus ~ Religion: Exorcism 
#11
Garrett, Michael: Demons five, Exorcists nothing-a fable: The theo-illogical, semi-autobiographical epic film that never was. In: American exorcist: Critical essays on William Peter Blatty. Edited by Benjamin Szumskyj. - Jefferson, North Carolina; London: McFarland & Co. 2008. pp. 132-149.
Index:
 Blatty, William Peter 
 USA (United States of America) ~ USA (United States of America) 
 Religion: Exorzismus ~ Religion: Exorcism 
 Dämonen ~ Demons 
 Exorcist, The (Literatur ~ Literature) 
#12
Giesen, Rolf: Okkultismus und Exorzismus im Kino. In: Science Fiction Times 20. 1978. No. 2(145). [August] p. 26.
Index:
 Religion: Exorzismus ~ Religion: Exorcism 
 Religion: Okkultismus ~ Religion: Occultism 
#13
Großhans, Sven: Das Schauspiel der Besessenheit: Exorzismus im Film. - Berlin: Logos-Verlag 2010. (= PeriLog 4.)
Description:
 Discusses especially Scott Derrickson’s The Exorcism of Emily Rose, William Friedkin’s The Exorcist and Hans-Christian Schmid’s Requiem. 
Index:
 Derrickson, Scott 
 Friedkin, William 
 Schmid, Hans-Christian 
 Exorcism of Emily Rose, The (2005) 
 Exorcist, The - Director’s Cut (1973/2000) 
 Requiem (2006) 
 Religion: Exorzismus ~ Religion: Exorcism 
 Religion ~ Religion 
 Dämonen ~ Demons 
#14
Hansen, Regina: Mad drunken exorcists: The decline of the hero priest. In: Roman Catholicism in fantastic film: Essays on belief, spectacle, ritual and imagery. Edited by Regina Hansen. - Jefferson, North Carolina; London: McFarland & Company 2011. pp. 268-274.
Index:
 Wahnsinn ~ Madness 
 Religion: Exorzismus ~ Religion: Exorcism 
 Helden ~ Heros 
 Religion ~ Religion 
#15
Hasenberg, Peter: Der Filmpublizist als Exorzist: Zu einer Polemik gegen Kirche und Kino. In: Film-Dienst 48. 1995. No. 12. [June 6] p. 17.
Description:
 On the dispute over a screening of Wim Wenders’s In weiter Ferne, so nah at the "Evangelischer Kirchentag" in Hamburg. 
Index:
 Wenders, Wim 
 In weiter Ferne, so nah! (1993) 
 Religion: Exorzismus ~ Religion: Exorcism 
 Hamburg ~ Hamburg 
 Religion ~ Religion 
#16
Heffernan, Kevin: Art house or house of exorcism? The changing distribution and reception contexts of Mario Bava’s Lisa and the Devil. In: Sleaze artists: Cinema at the margins of taste, style, and politics. Edited by Jeffrey Sconce. - Durham, North Carolina: Duke University Press 2007. p. ?P.
Description:
 On La Casa dell’esorcismo by Mario Bava and Alfredo Leone. 
Index:
 Bava, Mario 
 Leone, Alfredo 
 Casa dell’esorcismo, La (1973) 
 Religion: Exorzismus ~ Religion: Exorcism 
 Trash ~ Trash 
#17
Jenkins, Bruce: Gently Down the Stream. In: Millennium Film Journal 1986. No. 16-18. [Fall/Winter] pp. 195-198.
Description:
 On the representation of religion, especially exorcism, in the film. 
Index:
 Friedrich, Su 
 Gently Down the Stream (1981) 
 Religion: Exorzismus ~ Religion: Exorcism 
 Religion ~ Religion 
#18
Lawrenson, Edward: Devotion sickness. In: Sight and Sound NS 23. 2013. No. 4. [April] pp. 42-45.
Description:
 Interview with director Cristian Mungiu on Dupa dealur. 
Index:
 Mungiu, Cristian 
 Dupa dealur (2012) 
 Religion: Exorzismus ~ Religion: Exorcism 
#19
Lenssen, Claudia: Requiem: Exorzismus an einer jungen Frau in den siebziger Jahren. In: EPD Film 23. 2006. No. 3. [March] p. 33.
Index:
 Schmid, Hans-Christian 
 Requiem (2006) 
 Religion: Exorzismus ~ Religion: Exorcism 
 Frauen ~ Women 
#20
Ocker, J. W.: The horror of The Exorcist: Its presentation and confrontation. In: American exorcist: Critical essays on William Peter Blatty. Edited by Benjamin Szumskyj. - Jefferson, North Carolina; London: McFarland & Co. 2008. pp. 71-77.
Index:
 Blatty, William Peter 
 Friedkin, William 
 Exorcist, The (1973) 
 USA (United States of America) ~ USA (United States of America) 
 Religion: Exorzismus ~ Religion: Exorcism 
 Horror ~ Horror 
 Exorcist, The (Literatur ~ Literature) 
#21
Olson, Christopher J. / Reinhard, Carrielynn D.: Possessed women, haunted states: Cultural tensions in exorcism cinema. - Lanham, Maryland: Lexington Books 2017.
Index:
 Religion: Exorzismus ~ Religion: Exorcism 
 Religion ~ Religion 
 Frauen ~ Women 
#22
Pogats, Paul Clemens: Das Exorzismusritual der Katholischen Kirche: Im Spannungsfeld zwischen Liturgie und Film am Beispiel des Films Possessed. - Saarbrücken: AV Akademikerverlag 2018.
Index:
 de Souza, Steven E. 
 Possessed (2000) 
 Religion: Exorzismus ~ Religion: Exorcism 
 Religion ~ Religion 
#23
Prager, Brad: Taming impulses: Murnau’s Sunrise and the exorcism of expressionism. In: Literature/Film Quarterly 28. 2000. No. 4. [?D] pp. 284-292.
Index:
 Murnau, Friedrich Wilhelm 
 Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans (1927) 
 Religion: Exorzismus ~ Religion: Exorcism 
 Expressionismus ~ Expressionism 
#24
Rauscher, Andreas: Von Bio-Exorzisten, kopflosen Reitern und liebenden Toten: Tim Burtons Heimsuchungen des Genrekinos. In: Gespenster. Hrsg. von Thomas Koebner. - München: Ed. Text + Kritik 2014. (= Projektionen 8.) pp. 208-225.
Index:
 Burton, Tim 
 Tod ~ Death 
 Religion: Exorzismus ~ Religion: Exorcism 
 Geister ~ Ghosts 
#25
Riepe, Manfred: Der Exorzismus von Emily Rose: Exorzismus-Thriller nach einem authentischen Fall. In: EPD Film 22. 2005. No. 12. [December] p. 31.
Description:
 On Scott Derrickson’s The Exorcism of Emily Rose. 
Index:
 Derrickson, Scott 
 Exorcism of Emily Rose, The (2005) 
 Religion: Exorzismus ~ Religion: Exorcism 
 Thriller ~ Thriller 
 Religion ~ Religion 
#26
Scala, Monika: Der Exorzismus in der Katholischen Kirche: Ein liturgisches Ritual zwischen Film, Mythos und Realität. - Regensburg: Pustet 2012. (= Studien zur Pastoralliturgie 29.)
Description:
 On the history of exorcism and the imagination of evil in religion and in film. Includes a detailed analysis of William Friedkin’s 1973 classic The Exorcist. 
Index:
 Friedkin, William 
 Exorcist, The (1973) 
 Religion: Exorzismus ~ Religion: Exorcism 
 Religion ~ Religion 
 Mythologie ~ Mythology 
 Geschichte ~ History 
 Böse, Das ~ Evil, The 
#27
Schwertfeger, Susan: Re-education as exorcism: How a white dog challenges the strategies for dealing with racism. In: Animal horror cinema: Genre, history and criticism. Edited by Katarina Gregersdotter, Johan Höglund and Nicklas Hållén. - Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire; New York: Palgrave Macmillan 2015. p. ?P.
Index:
 Fuller, Samuel 
 White Dog (1982) 
 Religion: Exorzismus ~ Religion: Exorcism 
 Pädagogik ~ Paedagogy 
 Hunde ~ Dogs 
 Ethnie ~ Ethnicity 
 Horror ~ Horror 
 Tiere ~ Animals 
#28
Short, Robert L.: Something to believe in: Is Kurt Vonnegut the exorcist of Jesus Christ Superstar? - San Francisco: Harper & Row 1978.
Index:
 Blatty, William Peter 
 Vonnegut, Kurt 
 Friedkin, William 
 Jewison, Norman 
 Exorcist, The (1973) 
 Jesus Christ Superstar (1972) 
 Religion: Exorzismus ~ Religion: Exorcism 
 Religion ~ Religion 
 Exorcist, The (Literatur ~ Literature) 
#29
Streat, Ryan: Twinkle, Twinkle, "Killer" Kane and The Ninth Configuration: A comparison. In: American exorcist: Critical essays on William Peter Blatty. Edited by Benjamin Szumskyj. - Jefferson, North Carolina; London: McFarland & Co. 2008. pp. 89-98.
Index:
 Blatty, William Peter 
 Ninth Configuration, The / Twinkle, Twinkle, Killer Kane (1980) 
 USA (United States of America) ~ USA (United States of America) 
 Religion: Exorzismus ~ Religion: Exorcism 
 Exorcist, The (Literatur ~ Literature) 
#30
Torres, Monica F.: Exorcizing / exercising treachery: Robust subjectivity in Lourdes Portillo’s The Devil Never Sleeps. In: The Velvet Light Trap 2006. No. 57. [?D] pp. 76-85.
Index:
 Portillo, Lourdes 
 Diabolo nunca duerme, El (1994) 
 Religion: Exorzismus ~ Religion: Exorcism 
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