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

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Pomerance, Murray, 1946-

Series:

SUNY series, cultural studies in cinema/video

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Good and evil in motion pictures.

Sensationalism in motion pictures.

Social problems in motion pictures.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (376 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Albany : State University of New York Press, c2004.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Examines the many forms of cinematic "badness" over the past one hundred years, from Nosferatu to The Talented Mr. Ripley.

Contents:

Intro

BAD

CONTENTS

ILLUSTRATIONS

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

INTRODUCTION. From Bad to Worse MURRAY POMERANCE

PART I: It's a Slimy World, After All

1. Flickers: On Cinema's Power for Evil TOM GUNNING

2. Monstrosity and the Bad-White-Body Film GWENDOLYN AUDREY FOSTER

3. Beyond the Thin Line of Black and Blue: Movies and Police Misconduct in Los Angeles AARON BAKER

4. Genocidal Spectacles and the Ideology of Death CHRISTOPHER SHARRETT

5. Bad, Worse, Worst: 8MM and Hollywood's Bad Boys of Porn PETER LEHMAN

6. Toxic Corps: Rage against the Corporate State KIRBY FARRELL

7. The Ghost World of Neoliberalism: Abandoning the Abandoned Generation HENRY A. GIROUX

PART II: Auteurs of Negativity, Icons of Darkness

8. "How Will I Get My Opium?": Jean Cocteau and the Treachery of Friendship WHEELER WINSTON DIXON

9. The Sweeter the Kitten the Sharper the Claws: Russ Meyer's Bad Girls KRISTEN HATCH

10. Wanted for Murder: The Strange Case of Eric Portman TONY WILLIAMS

11. The Arch Archenemies of James Bond STEVEN WOODWARD

12. From Fu Manchu to M. Butterfly and Irma Vep: Cinematic Incarnations of Chinese Villainy GINA MARCHETTI

13. On the Bad Goodness of Born to Be Bad: Auteurism, Evaluation, and Nicholas Ray's Outsider Cinema DANA POLAN

14. The Villain in Hitchcock: "Does He Look Like a 'Wrong One' to You?" WILLIAM ROTHMAN

PART III: The Charisma of Villainy

15. The "Evil Medieval": Gender, Sexuality, Miscegenation, and Assimilation in Cat People ALEXANDER DOTY AND PATRICIA CLARE INGHAM

16. Wicked Old Ladies from Europe: Jeanne Moreau and Marlene Dietrich on the Screen and Live E. ANN KAPLAN

17. Darkness Visible: Images of Nazis in American Film LESTER D. FRIEDMAN

18. "The Whole Fucking World Warped around Me": Bad Kids and Worse Contexts CYNTHIA FUCHS.

19. Searching for Blobby Fissures: Slime, Sexuality, and the Grotesque REBECCA BELL-METEREAU

20. Crazy Like a Prof: Mad Science and the Transgressions of the Rational INA RAE HARK

21. Tom Ripley's Talent MURRAY POMERANCE

CONTRIBUTORS

INDEX

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Y

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Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780791485811

0791485811

9781423739197

1423739191

OCLC:

62757603