ABRAXAS JOURNAL Special #2: Luminous Screen

Last Copies - This title is now out of print Luminous Screen is the 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 the 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. Introduction: Haunted Cinema and Sacred Communication – Jack SargeantNosferatu Daemonium, a Cinematographic Grimoire – Leon MarvellThe Devil Made Me Do It: The Innovation and Influence of Benjamin Christensen’s Häxan – Denah A. JohnstonLoa of the Avant-Garde: Maya Deren in Haiti – John ClineExperiments in Film and Magic: The Phantasmagoria of William S. Burroughs and Brion Gysin – Jon CrabbThe Light Behind the Lens: The Occult Cinema of Kenneth Anger – Judith