Bad : infamy, darkness, evil, and slime on screen / / edited by Murray Pomerance |
Edizione | [1st ed.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Albany, : State University of New York Press, c2004 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (376 p.) |
Disciplina | 791.43/653 |
Altri autori (Persone) | PomeranceMurray <1946-> |
Collana | SUNY series, cultural studies in cinema/video |
Soggetto topico |
Evil in motion pictures
Sensationalism in motion pictures Social problems in motion pictures |
ISBN |
0-7914-8581-1
1-4237-3919-1 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
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. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910808147503321 |
Albany, : State University of New York Press, c2004 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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The changing face of evil in film and television [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Martin F. Norden |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Amsterdam ; ; New York, NY, : Rodopi, 2007 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (267 p.) |
Disciplina | 791.4368 |
Altri autori (Persone) | NordenMartin F. <1951-> |
Collana | At the interface/probing the boundaries |
Soggetto topico |
Good and evil
Evil in motion pictures Motion pictures - Social aspects Television broadcasting - Social aspects |
Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
ISBN |
94-012-0527-2
1-4356-1109-8 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | 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. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910452079303321 |
Amsterdam ; ; New York, NY, : Rodopi, 2007 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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The changing face of evil in film and television [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Martin F. Norden |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Amsterdam ; ; New York, NY, : Rodopi, 2007 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (267 p.) |
Disciplina | 791.4368 |
Altri autori (Persone) | NordenMartin F. <1951-> |
Collana | At the interface/probing the boundaries |
Soggetto topico |
Good and evil
Evil in motion pictures Motion pictures - Social aspects Television broadcasting - Social aspects |
Soggetto genere / forma | Aufsatzsammlung |
ISBN |
94-012-0527-2
1-4356-1109-8 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | 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. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910778354703321 |
Amsterdam ; ; New York, NY, : Rodopi, 2007 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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The changing face of evil in film and television / / edited by Martin F. Norden |
Edizione | [1st ed.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Amsterdam ; ; New York, NY, : Rodopi, 2007 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (267 p.) |
Disciplina | 791.4368 |
Altri autori (Persone) | NordenMartin F. <1951-> |
Collana | At the interface/probing the boundaries |
Soggetto topico |
Good and evil
Evil in motion pictures Motion pictures - Social aspects Television broadcasting - Social aspects |
ISBN |
94-012-0527-2
1-4356-1109-8 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | 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. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910811253203321 |
Amsterdam ; ; New York, NY, : Rodopi, 2007 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Cinema and evil : moral complexities and the "dangerous" film / / by Dara Waldron |
Autore | Waldron Dara |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Newcastle upon Tyne, England : , : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, , 2013 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (229 p.) |
Disciplina | 791.43653 |
Soggetto topico | Evil in motion pictures |
Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
ISBN | 1-4438-6558-3 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto |
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 Evil
CHAPTER 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; FILMOGRAPHY |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910465294203321 |
Waldron Dara | ||
Newcastle upon Tyne, England : , : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, , 2013 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Cinema and evil : moral complexities and the "dangerous" film / / by Dara Waldron |
Autore | Waldron Dara |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Newcastle upon Tyne, England : , : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, , 2013 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (229 p.) |
Disciplina | 791.43653 |
Soggetto topico | Evil in motion pictures |
ISBN | 1-4438-6558-3 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto |
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 Evil
CHAPTER 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; FILMOGRAPHY |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910786754803321 |
Waldron Dara | ||
Newcastle upon Tyne, England : , : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, , 2013 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Cinema and evil : moral complexities and the "dangerous" film / / by Dara Waldron |
Autore | Waldron Dara |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Newcastle upon Tyne, England : , : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, , 2013 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (229 p.) |
Disciplina | 791.43653 |
Soggetto topico | Evil in motion pictures |
ISBN | 1-4438-6558-3 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto |
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 Evil
CHAPTER 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; FILMOGRAPHY |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910821865303321 |
Waldron Dara | ||
Newcastle upon Tyne, England : , : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, , 2013 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Shows about nothing : nihilism in popular culture / / Thomas S. Hibbs |
Autore | Hibbs Thomas S. |
Edizione | [2nd rev. and expanded ed.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Waco, Texas : , : Baylor University Press, , 2012 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (276 pages) : illustrations |
Disciplina | 791.43684 |
Soggetto topico |
Nihilism (Philosophy) in motion pictures
Nihilism (Philosophy) on television Evil in motion pictures Culture in motion pictures |
Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
ISBN |
1-60258-379-X
1-60258-378-1 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910467035403321 |
Hibbs Thomas S. | ||
Waco, Texas : , : Baylor University Press, , 2012 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Shows about nothing : nihilism in popular culture / / Thomas S. Hibbs |
Autore | Hibbs Thomas S. |
Edizione | [2nd rev. and expanded ed.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Waco, Texas : , : Baylor University Press, , 2012 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (276 pages) : illustrations |
Disciplina | 791.43684 |
Soggetto topico |
Nihilism (Philosophy) in motion pictures
Nihilism (Philosophy) on television Evil in motion pictures Culture in motion pictures |
ISBN | 1-60258-379-X |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910796022903321 |
Hibbs Thomas S. | ||
Waco, Texas : , : Baylor University Press, , 2012 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Shows about nothing : nihilism in popular culture / / Thomas S. Hibbs |
Autore | Hibbs Thomas S. |
Edizione | [2nd rev. and expanded ed.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Waco, Texas : , : Baylor University Press, , 2012 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (276 pages) : illustrations |
Disciplina | 791.43684 |
Soggetto topico |
Nihilism (Philosophy) in motion pictures
Nihilism (Philosophy) on television Evil in motion pictures Culture in motion pictures |
ISBN | 1-60258-379-X |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910811897703321 |
Hibbs Thomas S. | ||
Waco, Texas : , : Baylor University Press, , 2012 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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