Something wicked this way comes essays on evil and human wickedness / edited by Colette Balmain and Lois Drawmer.
| Other author | Balmain, Colette. |
| Other author | Drawmer, Lois. |
| Other author | Global Conference on Perspectives on Evil and Human Wickedness 2005 : Prague) |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | Amsterdam ; New York, NY : Rodopi, |
| Description | 209 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm. |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete |
| Subjects |
| Series | At the interface/Probing the boundaries ; v. 57 At the interface/probing the boundaries ; v. 57. ^A586944 |
| Contents | Preface / Colette Balmain -- pt. 1. Images of evil. " -- and if looks could kill" : making up the face of evil / Geraldine Biddle-Perry, Janice Miller -- Oriental nightmares : the "demonic" other in contemporary American adaptations of Japanese horror film / Colette Balmain -- Hoping for heaven, landing in hell : lessons learned at a medieval Chinese grotto / Karil Kucera -- The cartoon nationalism of contemporary Japan / Charles Nuckolls -- pt. 2. Ethics and responsibility. Collective denial : Serbs and the war in Bosnia / Merdijana Sadovic -- Ethical aliens : the challenge of extreme perpetrators to humanism / William Andrew Myers -- The problem of evil beyond theology / Alan Watt -- The way of the transgressor is hard : personal experience on death, suffering and "community responsibility" / Chris Bell -- Teaching about evil in history : demonizing historical figures / Robert W. Butler -- pt. 3. Sex and seduction. Remarriage and ass-f**ing : shifty Byzantine views of sex / Stephen Morris -- The seduction of evil : an examination of the media culture of the current white supremacist movement / Anthony F. Crisafi -- "Get your kicks on route 666," or why the devil has all the best tunes : trekkin through the darker side of heavy metal music / Frank Faulkner -- Wicked women : the menace lurking behind female independence / Margarita Carretero-González, Ma Elena Rodríguez-Martin. |
| Abstract | This book 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. |
| General note | Collected papers expanded from papers given at the 6th Global Conference on Evil and Human Wickedness, March 2005. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2019462180 |
| ISBN | 9789042025509 (pbk.) |
| ISBN | 9042025506 (pbk.) |
| Stock number | Ne 09-11 |
Availability
| Library | Location | Call Number | Status | Item Actions |
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| Electronic Resources | Access Content Online | ✔ Available |