The changing face of evil in film and television / edited by Martin F. Norden.

Format
Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
Amsterdam ; New York, NY : Rodopi, 2007.
Description
xxi, 244 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.

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Bibliographic references
Includes bibliographical references (p. [215]-230) and index.
Action note
Committed to retain in perpetuity — ReCAP Shared Collection (HUL)
Contents
  • Introduction / Martin F. Norden
  • The bite at the beginning : encoding evil through film title design / Matthew Soar
  • Screening evil in history : Rope, Compulsion, Scarface, Richard III / Linda Bradley Salamon
  • The radical monism of Alfred Hitchcock / Mike Frank
  • Natural evil in the horror film : Alfred Hitchcock's The birds / Cynthia Freeland
  • "The devil made me do it" : representing evil and disarticulating mind/body in the supernatural serial killer film / Matt Hills and Steven Jay Schneider
  • Virtue, vice, and the Harry Potter universe / Thomas Hibbs
  • Training day and The shield : evil cops and the taint of blackness / Robin R. Means Coleman and Jasmine Nicole Cobb
  • The "uncanny" relationship of disability and evil in film and television / Martin F. Norden
  • Comedy and the Holocaust in Roberto Benigni's Life Is beautiful/La vita è bella / Carlo Celli
  • On the void : the fascinating object of evil in Human remains / Garnet C. Butchart
  • The perfidious president and "the beast" : evil in Oliver Stone's Nixon / John F. Stone
  • Televising 9/11 and its aftermath : the framing of George W. Bush's faith-based politics of good and evil / Gary R. Edgerton, William B. Hart and Frances Hassencahl.
ISBN
  • 9042023244
  • 9789042023246
OCLC
181068789
RCP
H - S
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