Something wicked this way comes : : essays on evil and human wickedness / / edited by Colette Balmain and Lois Drawmer.

• Superior document: At the interface/probing the boundaries ; v. 57
• Author: Global Conference on Perspectives on Evil and Human Wickedness
• TeilnehmendeR: Balmain, Colette.; Drawmer, Lois.; Global Conference on Perspectives on Evil and Human Wickedness (6th : 2005 : Prague)
• Year of Publication: 2009
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: At the interface/probing the boundaries ; v. 57.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (221 p.)
• Notes: Collected papers expanded from papers given at the 6th Global Conference on Evil and Human Wickedness, March 2005.
• Other title: Preliminary Material --; Preface /; “....and if Looks Could Kill:” Making Up the Face of Evil /; Oriental Nightmares: The ‘Demonic’ Other in Contemporary American Adaptations of Japanese Horror Film /; Hoping for Heaven, Landing in Hell: Lessons Learned at a Medieval Chinese Grotto /; The Cartoon Nationalism of Contemporary Japan /; Collective Denial: Serbs and the War in Bosnia /; Ethical Aliens: The Challenge of Extreme Perpetrators to Humanism /; The Problem of Evil Beyond Theology /; The Way of the Transgressor Is Hard: Personal Experience on Death, Suffering, and “Community Responsibility” /; Teaching About Evil in History: Demonizing Historical Figures /; Remarriage and Ass-F**king: Shifty Byzantine Views of Sex /; The Seduction of Evil: An Examination of the Media Culture of the Current White Supremacist Movement /; “Get your kicks on Route 666”, or Why the Devil Has All the Best Tunes: Trekking Through the Darker Side of Heavy Metal Music /; Wicked Women: The Menace Lurking Behind Female Independence /; Notes on Contributors.
• Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references.
• ISBN: 1282594265; 9786612594267; 9042028793; 1441606459
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: edited by Colette Balmain and Lois Drawmer.

The papers collected in this volume are expanded from papers given at the 6th Global Conference on Evil and Human Wickedness, which took place in March 2005. The chapters here represent the diversity and interdisciplinary nature of the conference itself covering topics such as historical and theological concepts of evil, media representations of evil, contemporary debates surrounding the Bosnia war and woman perpetrators in Birkenau, and the construction of the Other as evil in the face of the continuing hysteria over AIDS. The range of the papers collected here makes this book essential reading for students of all humanities disciplines.