The Exorcist: Studies in the Horror Film
- Written by Studies in the Horror Film
- ISBN: 9781933618968
- Format: Hardcover, 516pp
- Publish Date: March 1, 2012
- Dimensions: Unknown Dimensions
- Original Price: US$150
- Genre: Non-Fiction Film Studies
- Publication Type: Novel
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Jonathan Allen Lethem (bo. 1964) is an American novelist, essayist and short story writer. His first novel, Gun, with Occasional Music, a genre work that mixed elements of science fiction and detective fiction, was published in 1994. It was followed by three more science fiction novels. In 1999, Lethem published Motherless Brooklyn, a National Book Critics Circle Award-winning novel that achieved mainstream success. N 2003, he published The Fortress of Solitude, which became a New York Times Best Seller.In 1999, Lethem published Motherless Brooklyn, a National Book Critics Circle Award-winning novel that achieved mainstream success. In 2003, he published The Fortress of Solitude, which became a New York Times Best Seller. Jonathan Allen Lethem (bo. 1964) is an American novelist, essayist and short story writer. His first novel, Gun, with Occasional Music, a genre work that mixed elements of science fiction and detective fiction, was published in 1994.
William Friedkin's 1973 adaptation of William Peter Blatty's novel The Exorcist is one of the most notorious and controversial films ever made Nominated for ten Academy Awards (including Best Picture, the first horror film to do so) and winning two Oscars for Best Screenplay and Sound, The Exorcist remains the top grossing R-rated movie of all time ertainly it is the scariest, according to Entertainment Weekly, Maxim, Movies. com, Variety, AFI, and Roger Ebert These twenty-five interviews, reminiscences, and articles explore how and why The Exorcist (premiering 26 December 1973) still haunts our imaginations and nightly dreams, along with influencing a new generation of directors, including Guillermo del Toro, M.
Ight Shyamalan, and James Wan In-depth conversations with its makers, from the present to nearly four decades ago, ask about its inspirations and ambitions, and deliver many unexpected answers ew evaluative treatments from leading scholars of film and fiction track what this original film and its prequels and sequels indicate about sexuality and gender roles, morality and the monstrous, character and conflict, politics and theology, adaptation and artistic ambiguity, fateful decisions in casting/writing/directing, and conversations The Exorcist has with other films For The Exorcist obsessive, to casual students of film, to lovers of terror, mystery, and theological fright, this new title pays deep honor to a legendary film, and illuminates the ways Director William Friedkin and Writer William Peter Blatty's film still possesses us. edition information.
Edition Details
- The hardcover edition is limited to just 100 signed and numbered copies, signed by editor Danel Olson as well as authors William Peter Blatty, Thomas Ligotti, Michael Arnzen and Thomas Hibbs.
- Ribbon marker, head and tail bands, fully clothbound with four color image inset in the front board.
Contents:
- Editor's Preface (The Exorcist: Studies in the Horror Film)
- The Exorcist
- A Conversation with William Peter Blatty (The Exorcist: Studies in the Horror Film)
- An Interview with William Friedkin (The Exorcist: Studies in the Horror Film)
- Interview with Jason Miller (The Exorcist: Studies in the Horror Film)
- Interview with William Friedkin (The Exorcist: Studies in the Horror Film)
- Interview with Dick Smith
- Interview with Bud Smith (The Exorcist: Studies in the Horror Film)
- Exorcising the Liberal
- Seeing Is Believing: The Exorcist and Don't Look Now
- The Exorcist and The Texas Chainsaw Massacre
- Woman as Abject Monster: The Exorcist
- The Haunted Boy: The Inspiration for The Exorcist
- Familial Ideology in The Exorcist
- The Deeper Magic of William Peter Blatty
- Characters Saved and Unsaved, Believable and Unbelievable: Blatty Versus Lovecraft
- The Exorcist
- If There Were Demons, Perhaps There Were Angels
- An Interview with William Peter Blatty
- There Is Only One: The Restoration of the Repressed in The Exorcist: The Version You've Never Seen
- On Otherness and Illusion in The Exorcist II: The Heretic
- Burn the Heretic!: The Apocalyptic Folly of Exorcist II
- Being No One: Unpicking the Theological Follies of Exorcist III
- It's a Wonderful Life? The Exorcist III: Possess the Patriarchal Soul of Frank Capra's Classic
- In the Beginning There Was Dominion: A Duel for the Soul of The Exorcist Prequel
- Interview with Paul Schrader
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