Bad : infamy, darkness, evil, and slime on screen / edited by Murray Pomerance.

Other author Pomerance, Murray, 1946-
Format Book
Publication InfoAlbany : State University of New York Press, ©2004.
Descriptionxviii, 357 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Subjects

SeriesSUNY 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 noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
LCCN 2003042556
ISBN0791459403 (pbk. : alk. paper)
ISBN079145939X (alk. paper)

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Joyner General Stacks PN1995.9.E93 B33 2004 ✔ Available Place Hold