Description
Jack Sargeant (Editor)
Fulgar Limited, London. Published Winter 2014. Sewn Paperback. Limited Edition. 4to (290mm x 232mm). 128 large format pages of essays, poetry, interviews and art. Printed using state-of-the-art offset lithography, richly illustrated and employing a variety of papers.
“Luminous Screen is our second Special Issue of Abraxas. It is a collection of essays commissioned by guest editor Jack Sargeant that seek to explore the impact of esotericism on cinema. Printed using state-of-the-art offset lithography to our usual high standard, subjects for Luminous Screen range from the early German expressionist cinema of F.W. Murnau, to the contemporary arthouse films of Lars von Trier. In each essay, esoteric themes within these works are identified and analysed.”
CONTENTS
– Introduction: Haunted Cinema and Sacred Communication (Jack Sargeant)
– Nosferatu Daemonium, a Cinematographic Grimoire (Leon Marvell)
– The Devil Made Me Do It: The Innovation and Influence of Benjamin Christensen’s Häxan (Denah A. Johnston)
– Loa of the Avant-Garde: Maya Deren in Haiti (John Cline)
– Experiments in Film and Magic: The Phantasmagoria of William S. Burroughs and Brion Gysin (Jon Crabb)
– The Light Behind the Lens: The Occult Cinema of Kenneth Anger (Judith Noble)
– Holiest of Mountains (Michael Spann)
– In the Tradition of Magic: The Cinema of Derek Jarman (William Fowler)
– Transmissions and Expansions: Occult Cinema and Public Ritual (Jack Sargeant)
– Hellraiser: Tantric Noir (Leon Marvell)
– Imagined Histories: Craig Baldwin’s Mock Up on Mu and the Fabulation of Californian –Bohemia (Anthony Buchanan)
– ‘Just Turn Green’: Dionysian Nature in Lars von Trier’s Antichrist (Lindsay Hallam)
– Alchemical Cinema: Film and Spectatorship Rituals (Patricia MacCormack)
