Abraxas: International Journal of Esoteric Studies, Issue 2 ("Luminous Screen: The Influence of the Esoteric in Cinema"), Winter 2014

Jon Crabb contributes “Experiments in Film and Magic: The Phantasmagoria of William S. Burroughs and Brion Gysin”, pp. 37-48, to this issue edited by Jack Sareant.

There are additional mentions of Burroughs and Gysin in Jack Sargeant’s introduction, in Denah A. Johnston’s “The Devil Made Me Do It: The Innovation and Influence of Benjamin Christensen’s Häxan” (at page 24), and scattered in Jack Sargeant’s essay “Transmissions and Expansions: Occult Cinema and Public Ritual”.

Published in Lopen, Somerset, England by Fulgur Limited in Winter of 2014.

Bibliographic Information:

• Not in Schottlaender (v4, v5)
• Raven 20140100ABRA.0.2

Contents:

• Jack Sargeant:
• "Introduction: Haunted Cinema and Sacred Communication"
• "Transmissions and Expansions: Occult Cinema and Public Ritual" (essay)
• Leon Marvell:
• "Nosferateau Daemonium: A Cinematographic Grimoire" (essay)
• "Hellraiser: Tantric Noir" (essay)
• Denah A. Johnston: "The Devil Made Me Do It: The Innovation and Influence of Benjamin Christensen's Häxan" (essay)
• John Cline: "Loa of the Avant-Garde: Maya Deren in Haiti" (essay)
• Jon Crabb: "Experiments in Film and Magic: The Phantasmagoria of William S. Burroughs and Brion Gysin" (essay)
• Judith Noble: "The Light Behind the Lens: The Occult Cinema of Kenneth Anger" (essay)
• Michael Spann: "Holiest of Mountains"
• William Fowler: "In the Tradition of Magic: The Cinema of Derek Jarrman" (essay)
• Anthony Buchanan and Craig Baldwin: "Imagined Histories: Craig Baldwin's Mock Up on Mu and the Fabulation of Californian Bohemia" (interview)
• Lindsay Hallam: "'Just Turn Green': Dionysian Nature in Lars von Trier's Antichrist" (essay)
• Patricia Maccormack: "The Occult Witness: Film and Spectatorship Rituals" (essay)

Publishing Information:

• Editor: Jack Sargeant [for this issue]
• Literary Editor: Christina Oakley Harrington
• Art Editor and Publisher: Robert Ansell
• Associate Editor, New York: Pam Grossman
• Copy Editor: Merlin Cox
• Contributions Managament: Livia Filotico
• Content Adniser: Madeleine Ledespencer, Andrew Manns
• Social Media Administrator: Claudia Escalante