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- Bad: Infamy, Darkness, Evil, and Slime on Screen
- Book
- 2004
- Published by: State University of New York Press
- Series: SUNY series, Cultural Studies in Cinema/Video (discontinued)
summary
Violence and corruption sell big, especially since the birth of action cinema, but even from cinema’s earliest days, the public has been delighted to be stunned by screen representations of negativity in all its forms—evil, monstrosity, corruption, ugliness, villainy, and darkness. Bad examines the long line of thieves, rapists, varmints, codgers, dodgers, manipulators, exploiters, conmen, killers, vamps, liars, demons, cold-blooded megalomaniacs, and warmhearted flakes that populate cinematic narrative. From Nosferatu to The Talented Mr. Ripley, the contributors consider a wide range of genres and use a variety of critical approaches to examine evil, villainy, and immorality in twentieth-century film.
Table of Contents
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- ILLUSTRATIONS
- pp. xiii-xvi
- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
- pp. xvii-xviii
- INTRODUCTION. From Bad to Worse
- pp. 1-18
- PART I: It’s a Slimy World, After All
- PART II: Auteurs of Negativity, Icons of Darkness
- 11. The Arch Archenemies of James Bond
- pp. 173-186
- PART III: The Charisma of Villainy
- 21. Tom Ripley’s Talent
- pp. 315-330
- CONTRIBUTORS
- pp. 331-336
Additional Information
ISBN
9780791485811
DOI
MARC Record
OCLC
62365204
Pages
375
Launched on MUSE
2012-01-01
Language
English
Open Access
No