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Satanic Shadows : Depictions Of Hell And The Devil In Classic Cinema, Paperback / softback Book

Satanic Shadows : Depictions Of Hell And The Devil In Classic Cinema Paperback / softback

Edited by G. H. Janus

Paperback / softback

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Bestriding the many visual deceits and narratives to be found in early cinema was the singular figure of Satan, the Devil incarnate.

From Goethe's Faust to Dante's graphic renderings of the Inferno, classic art and literature were the well whence sprang the first cinematic depictions of the Devil, his deeds and his dwelling-place.

These feverish imaginings led to more elaborate and complex films which vividly explored the terrors of the fallen angel's relentless war against humanity.

From Georges Melies' diabolic trick-film Le Manoir Du Diable, shot in 1896, to such mysterious silent works as Witchcraft Through The Ages, Faust and Birth Of The Anti-Christ, and beyond to the burgeoning sound era, SATANIC SHADOWS documents all of the key filmic invocations of Satan, his victims and his worshippers unleashed in the first four decades of commercial cinema.

SATANIC SHADOWS shows how narratives of sin, temptation and damnation were central to the roots of cinema's horror and phantasy genres

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