Real Abuse
In The Exorcist, religion exists to rectify abuse. The 1973 film The Exorcist derives from a 1971 novel that emerges from a series of late summer 1949 newspaper reports about a boy’s exorcism. The film is a fictional depiction of a fictionalized version of a reported real. A review of this transmedi...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
| Check availability: | HBZ Gateway |
| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
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2025
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| In: |
The journal of gods and monsters
Year: 2025, Volume: 5, Issue: 1, Pages: 31-36 |
| Further subjects: | B
transmedia
B Rape B Violence B Ritual B Exorcism |
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Volltext (kostenfrei) |
| Summary: | In The Exorcist, religion exists to rectify abuse. The 1973 film The Exorcist derives from a 1971 novel that emerges from a series of late summer 1949 newspaper reports about a boy’s exorcism. The film is a fictional depiction of a fictionalized version of a reported real. A review of this transmedia formation finds the strongest consistency across depictions is abuse, including domestic violence, child abuse, and rape. Students of religion interested in The Exorcist must engage how it canonizes violence as a premise for ritual intervention. |
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| ISSN: | 2689-7032 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: The journal of gods and monsters
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