Night Mother: A Personal and Cultural History of the Exorcist Williams Marlena
Night Mother: A Personal and Cultural History of the Exorcist Williams Marlena Never watch The Exorcist, Marlena Williams's mother told her, just as she'd been told by her own mother as a Catholic…
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Night Mother: A Personal and Cultural History of the Exorcist Williams Marlena
Never watch The Exorcist, Marlena Williams's mother told her, just as she'd been told by her own mother as a Catholic teen in rural Oregon when the horror classic premiered. An inheritance passed from mother to daughter, The Exorcist looms large--in popular culture and in Williams's own life, years after Mary's illness and death. And like her mother, Mary, Williams watched it anyway.
Whether tracing the In Night Mother, Williams investigates the film not only as a projection of Americans' worst fears in the tumultuous 1970s and a source of enduring tropes around girlhood, faith, and transgression but also as a key to understanding her mother and the world she came from.The essays in Night Mother delve beneath the surface of The Exorcist to reveal the deeper stories the film tells about faith, family, illness, anger, guilt, desire, and death.