Bad : infamy, darkness, evil, and slime on screen / edited by Murray Pomerance.
| Other author | Pomerance, Murray, 1946- |
| Format | Book |
| Publication Info | Albany : State University of New York Press, ©2004. |
| Description | xviii, 357 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm. |
| Subjects |
| Series | SUNY series, cultural studies in cinema/video SUNY series, cultural studies in cinema/video. ^A456472 |
| Contents | Flickers: on cinema's power for evil / Tom Gunning -- Monstrosity and the bad-white-body film / Gwendolyn Audrey Foster -- Beyond the thin line of black and blue: movies and police misconduct in Los Angeles / Aaron Baker -- Genocidal spectacles and the ideology of death / Christopher Sharrett -- Bad, worse, worst: 8mm and Hollywood's bad boys of porn / Peter Lehman -- Toxic corps: rage against the corporate state / Kirby Farrell -- Ghost World of neoliberalism: abandoning the abandoned generation / Henry A. Giroux -- How will I get my opium? Jean Cocteau and the treachery of friendship / Wheeler Winston Dixon -- Sweeter the kitten the sharper the claws: Russ Meyer's bad girls / Kristen Hatch -- Wanted for murder: the strange case of Eric Portman / Tony Williams -- Arch archenemies of James Bond / Steven Woodward -- From Fu Manchu to M. Butterfly and Irma Vep: cinematic incarnations of Chinese villainy / Gina Marchetti -- On the bad goodness of Born to Be Bad: auteurism, evaluation, and Nicholas Ray's outsider cinema / Dana Polan -- Villain in Hitchcock: Does He Look Like a Wrong One to You? / William Rothman -- Evil medieval: gender, sexuality, miscegenation, and assimilation in Cat People / Alexander Doty and Patricia Clare Ingham -- Wicked old ladies from Europe: Jeanne Moreau and Marlene Dietrich on the screen and live / E. Ann Kaplan -- Darkness visible: images of Nazis in American film / Lester D. Friedman -- Whole fucking world warped around me: bad kids and worse contexts / Cynthia Fuchs -- Searching for blobby fissures: slime, sexuality, and the grotesque / Rebecca Bell-Metereau -- Crazy like a prof: mad science and the transgressions of the rational / Ina Rae Hark -- Tom Ripley's talent / Murray Pomerance. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| LCCN | 2003042556 |
| ISBN | 0791459403 (pbk. : alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 079145939X (alk. paper) |
Availability
| Library | Location | Call Number | Status | Item Actions |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Joyner | General Stacks | PN1995.9.E93 B33 2004 | ✔ Available | Place Hold |