Religious Imaging in Millennialist America: Dark Gnosis (Hardcover, 2018)

Chapter 1. Introduction: American Gnosis Chapter 2. Delirium A brief history of America's religious founding(s). Chapter 3: Dualism An exploration of good and evil via David Lynch's films. Chapter 4 Delusion On Mormon and Masonic symbolism in Matthew Barney's CREMASTER films Chapter 5: Deconstruction On Judaic law and the apocalypse of language in Ben Marcus' The Flame Alphabet. Chapter 6: Dereliction and Defecation On the religious underpinnings in Matthew Barney's Subliming Vessel and Ben Marcus' Leaving the Sea and the apocalyptic imaging of Matthew Barney's River of Fundament. Chapter 7. Dark Gnosis