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'The Power of Christ Compels You': Holy Water, Hysteria, and the Oedipal Psychodrama inThe Exorcist

Authors :
Sara Williams
Source :
Lit: Literature Interpretation Theory. 22:218-238
Publication Year :
2011
Publisher :
Informa UK Limited, 2011.

Abstract

Though made forty years ago, William Friedkin's The Exorcist (1971) remains a shocking film, as scenes of Regan's bodily contortions and convulsions, explicit acts of masturbation, and sexual abuse...

Details

ISSN :
15455866 and 10436928
Volume :
22
Database :
OpenAIRE
Journal :
Lit: Literature Interpretation Theory
Accession number :
edsair.doi...........7a3522d0adf9eb4ab0575d4e6ce5e939
Full Text :
https://doi.org/10.1080/10436928.2011.596385