Carefully respond to all of the following: utilizing the ideas of religion as orientation (Charles Long) and sociophobics (Douglas Cowan), write an in-depth analysis exploring the relationship between religion and horror as portrayed through one character’s orientation and one sociophobic theme in the chosen film (note: the sociophobic theme should come from Cowan’s typology, e.g., fear of death and of dying badly, fear of change in the sacred order, fear of supernatural evil internalized and externalized, etc). How would you describe this orientation? What are its primary characteristics? How would you describe the sociophobic theme? What are its main elements? How is the religious orientation used to help build a sense of fear associated with the sociophobic theme? What might all of this together suggest more broadly about the relationship between religion and sociophobics in American cinema horror?
Students are advised to select at least two specific scenes from the film in order to tightly focus their essays. All critical reflection essays should include an underlined or italicized thesis statement (central argument) in the opening paragraph, a body, which provides specific details (e.g, particular characters, dialogue, scenes, events, etc.) from the film as well as analysis supporting the thesis statement,
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