1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910964039803321

Titolo

Bad : infamy, darkness, evil, and slime on screen / / edited by Murray Pomerance

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Albany, : State University of New York Press, c2004

ISBN

9780791485811

0791485811

9781423739197

1423739191

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (376 p.)

Collana

SUNY series, cultural studies in cinema/video

Altri autori (Persone)

PomeranceMurray <1946->

Disciplina

791.43/653

Soggetti

Good and evil in motion pictures

Sensationalism in motion pictures

Social problems in motion pictures

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Intro -- BAD -- CONTENTS -- ILLUSTRATIONS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- INTRODUCTION. From Bad to Worse MURRAY POMERANCE -- PART I: It's a Slimy World, After All -- 1. Flickers: On Cinema's Power for Evil TOM GUNNING -- 2. Monstrosity and the Bad-White-Body Film GWENDOLYN AUDREY FOSTER -- 3. Beyond the Thin Line of Black and Blue: Movies and Police Misconduct in Los Angeles AARON BAKER -- 4. Genocidal Spectacles and the Ideology of Death CHRISTOPHER SHARRETT -- 5. Bad, Worse, Worst: 8MM and Hollywood's Bad Boys of Porn PETER LEHMAN -- 6. Toxic Corps: Rage against the Corporate State KIRBY FARRELL -- 7. The Ghost World of Neoliberalism: Abandoning the Abandoned Generation HENRY A. GIROUX -- PART II: Auteurs of Negativity, Icons of Darkness -- 8. "How Will I Get My Opium?": Jean Cocteau and the Treachery of Friendship WHEELER WINSTON DIXON -- 9. The Sweeter the Kitten the Sharper the Claws: Russ Meyer's Bad Girls KRISTEN HATCH -- 10. Wanted for Murder: The Strange Case of Eric Portman TONY WILLIAMS -- 11. The Arch Archenemies of James Bond STEVEN WOODWARD -- 12. From Fu Manchu to M. Butterfly and Irma Vep: Cinematic Incarnations of Chinese



Villainy GINA MARCHETTI -- 13. On the Bad Goodness of Born to Be Bad: Auteurism, Evaluation, and Nicholas Ray's Outsider Cinema DANA POLAN -- 14. The Villain in Hitchcock: "Does He Look Like a 'Wrong One' to You?" WILLIAM ROTHMAN -- PART III: The Charisma of Villainy -- 15. The "Evil Medieval": Gender, Sexuality, Miscegenation, and Assimilation in Cat People ALEXANDER DOTY AND PATRICIA CLARE INGHAM -- 16. Wicked Old Ladies from Europe: Jeanne Moreau and Marlene Dietrich on the Screen and Live E. ANN KAPLAN -- 17. Darkness Visible: Images of Nazis in American Film LESTER D. FRIEDMAN -- 18. "The Whole Fucking World Warped around Me": Bad Kids and Worse Contexts CYNTHIA FUCHS.

19. Searching for Blobby Fissures: Slime, Sexuality, and the Grotesque REBECCA BELL-METEREAU -- 20. Crazy Like a Prof: Mad Science and the Transgressions of the Rational INA RAE HARK -- 21. Tom Ripley's Talent MURRAY POMERANCE -- CONTRIBUTORS -- INDEX -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.

Sommario/riassunto

Examines the many forms of cinematic "badness" over the past one hundred years, from Nosferatu to The Talented Mr. Ripley.



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9911008437503321

Titolo

A history of Austrian literature 1918-2000 / / edited by Katrin Kohl and Ritchie Robertson

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Rochester, NY, : Camden House, 2006

ISBN

1-281-94919-1

9786611949198

1-57113-670-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xii, 336 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)

Collana

Studies in German literature, linguistics, and culture

Altri autori (Persone)

KohlKatrin M <1956-> (Katrin Maria)

RobertsonRitchie

Disciplina

830.9/94360904

Soggetti

Austrian literature - 20th century - History and criticism

Politics and literature - Austria - History - 20th century

Popular culture - Austria - History - 20th century

Publishers and publishing - Austria - History - 20th century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 16 Mar 2023).

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Drama in Austria, 1918-45 /Judith Beniston -- Austrian prose fiction, 1918-45 / Ritchie Robertson -- Publishers and institutions in Austria, 1918-45 / Murray G. Hall -- Popular culture in Austria: cabaret and film, 1918-45 / Janet Stewart -- The politics of Austrian literature, 1927-56 / Andrew Barker -- Austrian poetry, 1918-2000 / Katrin Kohl -- Writing in Austria after 1945: the political, institutional, and publishing context / Anthony Bushell -- Austrian responses to National Socialism and the Holocaust / Dagmar C.G. Lorenz -- Drama in Austria, 1945-2000 / Juliane Vogel -- Austrian prose fiction, 1945-2000 / J.J. Long -- Popular culture in Austria, 1945-2000 / Joseph McVeigh -- Shifting boundaries: responses to multiculturalism at the turn of the twenty-first century / Allyson Fiddler.

Sommario/riassunto

New essays examine 20th-c. Austrian literature in relation to history, politics, and popular culture. 20th-century Austrian literature boasts many outstanding writers: Schnitzler, Musil, Rilke, Kraus, Celan, Canetti, Bernhard, Jelinek. These and others feature in broader accounts of German literature, but it is desirable to see how the



Austrian literary scene -- and Austrian society itself -- shaped their writing. This volume thus surveys Austrian writers of drama, prose fiction, and lyric poetry; relates them to the distinctive history of modern Austria,a democratic republic that was overtaken by civil war and authoritarian rule, absorbed into Nazi Germany, and re-established as a neutral state; and examines their response to controversial events such as the collusion with Nazism, the Waldheim affair, and the rise of Haider and the extreme right. In addition to confronting controversy in the relations between literature, history, and politics, the volume examines popular culture in line with current trends. Contributors: Judith Beniston, Janet Stewart, Andrew Barker, Murray Hall, Anthony Bushell, Dagmar Lorenz, Juliane Vogel, Jonathan Long, Joseph McVeigh, Allyson Fiddler. Katrin Kohl is Lecturer in German and a Fellow of Jesus College, and Ritchie Robertson is Taylor Professor of German Language and Literature and a Fellow of The Queen's College, both at the University of Oxford.