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Roundtable discussion on The Forbidden Body

August 29th, 2022 | Posted in Body, Douglas Cowan, horror, sex

Featuring a roundtable discussion with Douglas E. Cowan on his book The Forbidden Body: Sex, Horror and the Religious Imagination (NUY Press, 2022). In addition to Cowan, participants include Laura Ammon, Associate Professor of Religion at Appalachian State University; Brandon R. Grafius, Associate Professor of Biblical Studies at Ecumenical Theological Seminary; and James F. McGrath, […]

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SOCIETY body horror inspired by THE TEN COMMANDMENTS

October 26th, 2020 | Posted in Bible as Horror, Body, horror, religion

I’ve been enjoying the second season of Eli Roth’s History of Horror on AMC, and in the episode of Body Horror an interesting and unexpected statement was shared in the commentary. Brian Yuzna, the director of a film that had escaped me previously, Society (1989), was talking about the influences on him that led to […]

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Cronenberg’s THE FLY, Transporters, and Atheism

February 21st, 2020 | Posted in Atheism, Body, science fiction, soul

I’ve never been a big fan of David Cronenberg’s The Fly, preferring the 1950s version, but when this video came across my YouTube feed I was intrigued. I enjoy the analysis of Rob Ager and Collative Learning, and his suggestion that The Fly should be understood as have an atheistic subtext is intriguing. Although Cronenberg […]

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Witches and Wicked Bodies at the British Museum

October 7th, 2014 | Posted in Body, Paganism, Wicca, Witchcraft

From the website of the British Museum: 25 September 2014 – 11 January 2015 This exhibition will examine the portrayal of witches and witchcraft in art from the Renaissance to the end of the 19th century. It will feature prints and drawings by artists including Dürer, Goya, Delacroix, Burne-Jones and Dante Gabriel Rossetti, alongside classical […]

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Elf Ears: New Trend in Body Modification

April 19th, 2011 | Posted in Body, Body modification, fantasy, science fiction

Today I became aware of a new trend in body modification, the creation of pointed ears reminiscent of those on Elves from Lord of the Rings, Avatar‘s Na’vi, and Star Trek‘s Vulcans. There is a lot of discussion and examples of it on the Internet, but an ABC News/Health online video provides an interesting, and […]

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Body Worlds: Art as Horrific Expression

October 24th, 2008 | Posted in art, Body, horror, Uncategorized

Body Worlds is presently on display in Salt Lake City here in the state where I live. In case you haven’t heard of this before, Body Worlds is described as part art, part science, the brainchild of Gunther von Hagens. It involves the use of actual cadavers whose tissues have been injected with plastic in […]

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The Body and Horror

May 4th, 2007 | Posted in Body, horror, Journal of Religion and Film

With my graduate studies drawing to a close I have finally had some time to expand my reading list, and one of the areas I have been exploring is religion and film, primarily as it relates to horror, science fiction, and fantasy. As part of my reading I have a stack of articles from The […]

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