Bad: Infamy, Darkness, Evil, and Slime on Screen

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BAD T H E S U N Y S E R I E S CULTURAL STUDIES IN CINEMA/VIDEO W H E E L E R W I N S T O N D I X O N | E D I T O R BAD ��� Infamy, Darkness, Evil, and Slime on Screen edited by M U R R A Y P O M E R A N C E STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK PRESS Cover photograph by Chris Buck. Copyright © 2004 by Chris Buck. Used by kind permission of the photographer. Published by State University of New York Press, Albany All rights reserved Printed in the United States of America No part of this book may be used or reproduced in any manner whatsoever without written permission. No part of this book may be stored in a retrieval system or transmitted in any form or by any means including electronic, electrostatic, magnetic tape, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise without the prior permission in writing of the publisher. For information, address State University of New York Press, 90 State Street, Suite 700, Albany, NY 12207 Production by Marilyn P. Semerad Marketing by Fran Keneston Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Bad : infamy, darkness, evil, and slime on screen / edited by Murray Pomerance. p. cm. — (The SUNY series, cultural studies in cinema/video) Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 0-7914-5939-X (alk. paper) — ISBN 0-7914-5940-3 (pbk. : alk. paper) 1. Evil in motion pictures. 2. Sensationalism in motion pictures. 3. Social problems in motion pictures. I. Pomerance, Murray, 1946– II. Series. PN1995.9E93B33 2003 791.43'653—dc21 2003042556 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1© 2004 State University of New York for Mike and Syd Pomerance who gave me the movie world, in loving memory . . . this thing of darkness I Acknowledge mine. —Shakespeare, The Tempest V.i.275–76 ...