Demon Possession and Sexual Violence in Post-Great Recession American Horror Cinema
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- ISBN 9781837723577
- Dimensions: 138 x 216mm
- Publication Date: 15 Feb 2026
- Publisher: University of Wales Press
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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This volume examines American horror films as key sites for exploring contemporary anxieties around gender, power and trauma. In this groundbreaking study, the author traces the resurgence of demon-possession narratives in US cinema following the 2008 financial crisis – a period marked by intensified misogyny, the rise of fourth-wave feminism, and shifting representations of sexual violence. Through incisive analysis of films such as Deliver Us from Evil (2014), The Neon Demon (2016) and The Scary of Sixty-First (2021), this study explores how the possessed body, particularly the possessed female body, emerges as a battleground for cultural fears about sexuality, violence and agency. Demon Possession demonstrates how demon-possession films reflect, reproduce and sometimes challenge dominant narratives about sexual violence and victimhood. Reframing possession as more than merely a horror trope, this book offers a vital lens for understanding gender and sexual politics in an age of economic precarity and social reckoning.
Miread Casey is a Lecturer in Film and Television Studies with the School of English, Media and Creative Arts in the University of Galway.
