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List of Illustrations xiii Acknowledgments xvii I N T R O D U C T I O N 1 From Bad to Worse MURRAY POMERANCE I. IT’S A SLIMY WORLD, AFTER ALL C H A P T E R O N E 21 Flickers: On Cinema’s Power for Evil TOM GUNNING C H A P T E R T W O 39 Monstrosity and the Bad-White-Body Film GWENDOLYN AUDREY FOSTER C H A P T E R T H R E E 55 Beyond the Thin Line of Black and Blue: Movies and Police Misconduct in Los Angeles AARON BAKER C H A P T E R F O U R 65 Genocidal Spectacles and the Ideology of Death CHRISTOPHER SHARRETT C O N T E N T S ix C H A P T E R F I V E 79 Bad, Worse, Worst: 8MM and Hollywood’s Bad Boys of Porn PETER LEHMAN C H A P T E R S I X 93 Toxic Corps: Rage against the Corporate State KIRBY FARRELL C H A P T E R S E V E N 109 The Ghost World of Neoliberalism: Abandoning the Abandoned Generation HENRY A. GIROUX II. AUTEURS OF NEGATIVITY, ICONS OF DARKNESS C H A P T E R E I G H T 127 “How Will I Get My Opium?”: Jean Cocteau and the Treachery of Friendship WHEELER WINSTON DIXON C H A P T E R N I N E 143 The Sweeter the Kitten the Sharper the Claws: Russ Meyer’s Bad Girls KRISTEN HATCH C H A P T E R T E N 157 Wanted for Murder: The Strange Case of Eric Portman TONY WILLIAMS C H A P T E R E L E V E N 173 The Arch Archenemies of James Bond STEVEN WOODWARD C H A P T E R T W E L V E 187 From Fu Manchu to M. Butterfly and Irma Vep: Cinematic Incarnations of Chinese Villainy GINA MARCHETTI x BAD [44.220.41.140] Project MUSE (2024-03-29 00:09 GMT) C H A P T E R T H I R T E E N 201 On the Bad Goodness of Born to Be Bad: Auteurism, Evaluation, and Nicholas Ray’s Outsider Cinema DANA POLAN C H A P T E R F O U R T E E N 213 The Villain in Hitchcock: “Does He Look Like a ‘Wrong One’ to You?” WILLIAM ROTHMAN III. THE CHARISMA OF VILLAINY C H A P T E R F I F T E E N 225 The “Evil Medieval”: Gender, Sexuality, Miscegenation, and Assimilation in Cat People ALEXANDER DOTY AND PATRICIA CLARE INGHAM C H A P T E R S I X T E E N 239 Wicked Old Ladies from Europe: Jeanne Moreau and Marlene Dietrich on the Screen and Live E. ANN KAPLAN C H A P T E R S E V E N T E E N 255 Darkness Visible: Images of Nazis in American Film LESTER D. FRIEDMAN C H A P T E R E I G H T E E N 273 “The Whole Fucking World Warped around Me”: Bad Kids and Worse Contexts CYNTHIA FUCHS C H A P T E R N I N E T E E N 287 Searching for Blobby Fissures: Slime, Sexuality, and the Grotesque REBECCA BELL-METEREAU C H A P T E R T W E N T Y 301 Crazy Like a Prof: Mad Science and the Transgressions of the Rational INA RAE HARK CONTENTS xi C H A P T E R T W E N T Y - O N E 315 Tom Ripley’s Talent MURRAY POMERANCE List of Contributors 331 Index 337 xii BAD ...