03397nam 2200553 450 991078675480332120230803035319.01-4438-6558-3(CKB)3710000000218141(EBL)1765210(SSID)ssj0001288473(PQKBManifestationID)12526258(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001288473(PQKBWorkID)11293584(PQKB)11116693(MiAaPQ)EBC1765210(Au-PeEL)EBL1765210(CaPaEBR)ebr10909477(CaONFJC)MIL636940(OCoLC)887507728(EXLCZ)99371000000021814120140828h20132013 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrCinema and evil moral complexities and the "dangerous" film /by Dara WaldronNewcastle upon Tyne, England :Cambridge Scholars Publishing,2013.©20131 online resource (229 p.)Description based upon print version of record.1-4438-4342-3 Includes bibliographical references, filmography.TABLE OF CONTENTS; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; INTRODUCTION; CHAPTER ONE - 'TRYING TO SEE DARKNESS'; Augustine and Theology; Responsibility; The Cathars; Paradise Lost; The Language of 'Sin'; Milton and Augustine; Kant and the Moral Law; Immoral Action; The Act of Evil; Interlude on Good and Evil; Lacan and Evil; In Finale: Kant avec Bataille; CHAPTER TWO - THE 'DISCOURSE ON EVIL' IN FRITZ LANG''S M (1931) AND ORSON WELLES''S TOUCH OF EVIL (1958); Introduction; M and Evil; Confessions; Welles and the Law; Welles and the Noir Landscape; Nothing but Desire; Conclusion: Desire and EvilCHAPTER THREE - PASOLINI AND THE REMNANTS OF NEOREALISMThe Remnants of Neo-Realism; The Beatific Vision and Pasolini's 'Nightmare'; The Messianic Intruder; Saló and the Ethical Test; Conclusion: 'Til Death Do Us Part; CHAPTER FOUR - 'STRIKE DEAR MISTRESS AND CURE HIS HEART''; Introduction; Masochism and the Law; Christology and Moral Crisis; Conclusion: The Fascist Within; Epilogue: Cavani and Evil; CHAPTER FIVE - 'BARBARISM BEGINS AT HOME'; The Evil That Young Men Do; Mea Culpa (and I Don't Care)/ or: Haneke's Cosmology; Haneke the Augustinian; CHAPTER SIX - DOLI INCAPAX?Friends and EnemiesEyes Wide Shut?; CHAPTER SEVEN - SEEING AND FAILING TO SEE AGAIN; After Saló; Banal or Radical Evil?; CONCLUSION; POSTSCRIPT; BIBLIOGRAPHY; FILMOGRAPHYMalevolence (and its causes) has been central to film since its inception; the birth of film coinciding with a fascination with crime, death, murder, horror, etc. Films which address the problem of evil, however, are less frequent and fewer in quantity; especially films which respond to a body of thought - philosophical or theological - which has deliberated on the topic of evil over the centuries. Cinema and Evil: Moral Responsibility and the ""Dangerous"" Film addresses these films. It explor...Evil in motion picturesEvil in motion pictures.791.43653Waldron Dara1491858MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910786754803321Cinema and evil3713933UNINA