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Book SynopsisTable of ContentsIntroduction: Giving the Devil His Due
Regina M. Hansen and Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock | 1
The Sign of the Cross: Georges Méliès and Early Satanic Cinema
Russ Hunter | 15
Murnau’s Faust and the Weimar Moment
Barry C. Knowlton and Eloise R. Knowlton | 27
Disney’s Devils
J. P. Telotte | 42
What’s the Deal with the Devil? The Comedic Devil in Four Films
Katherine A. Fowkes | 58
His Father’s Eyes: Rosemary''s Baby
David Sterritt | 71
From the Eternal Sea He Rises, Creating Armies on Either Shore:
The Antichristology of the Omen Franchise
R. Barton Palmer | 86
The Weird Devil: Lovecraftian Horror in John Carpenter’s Prince of Darkness
Carl H. Sederholm | 103
Narration and Damnation in Angel Heart
Murray Leeder | 120
The Devil’s in the Details: Devilish Desire and Roman Polanski’s The Ninth Gate
Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock | 136
Agency or Allowance:
The Satanic Complications of Female Autonomy in The Witches of Eastwick and The Witch
Simon Bacon | 149
“Roaming the Earth”: Satan in The Last Temptation of Christ and The Passion of the Christ
Catherine O’Brien | 161
Lucifer, Gabriel, and the Angelic Will in The Prophecy and Constantine
Regina M. Hansen | 178
Advocating for Satan: The Parousia-Inspired Horror Genre
David Hauka | 191
List of Contributors | 207
Index | 211