The changing face of evil in film and television / / edited by Martin F. Norden.
The popular media of film and television surround us daily with images of evil - images that have often gone critically unexamined. In the belief that people in ever-increasing numbers are turning to the media for their understanding of evil, this lively and provocative collection of essays addresse...
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| Superior document: | At the interface/probing the boundaries, v. 41 |
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| Year of Publication: | 2007 |
| Edition: | 1st ed. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | At the interface/probing the boundaries ;
v. 41. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (267 p.) |
| Notes: | Description based upon print version of record. |
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Table of Contents:
- Preliminary Material
- The Bite at the Beginning: Encoding Evil Through Film Title Design / Matthew Soar
- Screening Evil in History: Rope, Compulsion, Scarface, Richard III / Linda Bradley Salamon
- The Radical Monism of Alfred Hitchcock / Mike Frank
- Natural Evil in the Horror Film: Alfred Hitchcock’s The Birds / Cynthia Freeland
- “The Devil Made Me Do It!”: Representing Evil and Disarticulating Mind/Body in the Supernatural Serial Killer Film / Matt Hills and Steven Jay Schneider
- Virtue, Vice, and the Harry Potter Universe / Thomas Hibbs
- Training Day and The Shield: Evil Cops and the Taint of Blackness / Robin R. Means Coleman and Jasmine Nicole Cobb
- The “Uncanny” Relationship of Disability and Evil in Film and Television / Martin F. Norden
- Comedy and the Holocaust in Roberto Benigni’s Life Is Beautiful/La vita è bella / Carlo Celli
- On the Void: The Fascinating Object of Evil in Human Remains / Garnet C. Butchart
- The Perfidious President and “The Beast”: Evil in Oliver Stone’s Nixon / John F. Stone
- Televising 9/11 and Its Aftermath: The Framing of George W. Bush’s Faith-Based Politics of Good and Evil / Gary R. Edgerton , William B. Hart and Frances Hassencahl
- Bibliography
- Notes on Contributors
- Index.