04186nam 2200625Ia 450 991080814750332120200520144314.00-7914-8581-11-4237-3919-1(CKB)1000000000458460(OCoLC)62757603(CaPaEBR)ebrary10594782(SSID)ssj0000108469(PQKBManifestationID)11745623(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000108469(PQKBWorkID)10044708(PQKB)10167649(MiAaPQ)EBC3408455(OCoLC)62365204(MdBmJHUP)muse6093(DE-B1597)683502(DE-B1597)9780791485811(EXLCZ)99100000000045846020030204d2004 uy 0engurcn|||||||||txtccrBad infamy, darkness, evil, and slime on screen /edited by Murray Pomerance1st ed.Albany State University of New York Pressc20041 online resource (376 p.)SUNY series, cultural studies in cinema/videoBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph0-7914-5939-X Includes bibliographical references and index.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.Examines the many forms of cinematic "badness" over the past one hundred years, from Nosferatu to The Talented Mr. Ripley.Evil in motion picturesSensationalism in motion picturesSocial problems in motion picturesEvil in motion pictures.Sensationalism in motion pictures.Social problems in motion pictures.791.43/653Pomerance Murray1946-883499MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910808147503321Bad4005928UNINA