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"Films and television programs about nuns (women in a religious order) are among the most successful and popular we watch, from old favorites like The Sound of Music to recent smash hits like Call the Midwife and Mrs. Davis. This new collection studies the fascinating and often controversial ways nuns have been portrayed in popular media, such as warriors, career women, and agents of supernatural horror. Specialist contributors in popular culture study more than a century of works from around the globe in genres as diverse as musicals, horror films, and even heavy metal music videos"--
List of contents
Table of ContentsA Force of Habit: Popular Culture Presentations of Nuns
Marcus K. Harmes and Meredith A. Harmes
Period Drama and Female Agency from the Middle Ages to Vatican
Meredith A. Harmes and Marcus K. Harmes
Deconstructing Boundaries of Sexual Transgression Through the Nuns in Pier Paolo Pasolini's The Decameron (1971)
Hiju Kim
Black Narcissus: A Nuns' Story Through the Lens of Folk Horror
William Gombash
Fallen Angels: From Mothers Superior to Demon Nuns in Screen Narratives of Spain's Stolen Children
Mary Farrelly
"Too good a woman for God alone": Reading Nuance and Complexity in the Representation of Television's Warrior Nuns
Louise Coopey
The Devil We Know: Juan López Moctezuma's Alucarda and the Limits of Anticlerical Horror
Andrew Grossman
"Twin" Sisters Unrestrained: Recyclability in Italian Nunsploitation
Jonathon Barratt
The Strange and the Sacred: Depictions of Catholic Nuns in Supernatural Horror Stories
Susan Hopkins
Hail Mary Full of Horror: Rage and Religious Trauma in The Conjuring Universe
Michelle D. Wise
"I don't disagree that there's evil in the world. I do disagree that we're powerless against it": Faith, Feeling and "Fleshy" Desires in HBO's
Abel F. Fenwick
Brides of Satan: Nuns in Contemporary European Heavy Metal
Michael B. Charles
Sacrilegious Sisters: The Sanctification of Nunhood in Malayalam Cinema
Sony Jalarajan Raj and Adith K. Suresh
Final Thoughts: Nuns Face Their Futures
Marcus K. Harmes and Meredith A. Harmes
About the Contributors
Index
About the author
Marcus K. Harmes is a professor at the University of Southern Queensland, Toowoomba, Australia. He researches on British popular culture especially science fiction and horror.
Meredith A. Harmes teaches at the University of Southern Queensland, Toowoomba, Australia and has a research background in political science and British political history.
