Cinema and evil : moral complexities and the "dangerous" film / by Dara Waldron.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Waldron, Dara, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Good and evil in motion pictures.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (229 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Newcastle upon Tyne, England : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Malevolence (and its causes) has been central to film since its inception; the birth of film coinciding with a fascination with crime, death, murder, horror, etc. Films which address the problem of evil, however, are less frequent and fewer in quantity; especially films which respond to a body of thought - philosophical or theological - which has deliberated on the topic of evil over the centuries. Cinema and Evil: Moral Responsibility and the ""Dangerous"" Film addresses these films. It explor...

Contents:

TABLE OF CONTENTS; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; INTRODUCTION; CHAPTER ONE - 'TRYING TO SEE DARKNESS'; Augustine and Theology; Responsibility; The Cathars; Paradise Lost; The Language of 'Sin'; Milton and Augustine; Kant and the Moral Law; Immoral Action; The Act of Evil; Interlude on Good and Evil; Lacan and Evil; In Finale: Kant avec Bataille; CHAPTER TWO - THE 'DISCOURSE ON EVIL' IN FRITZ LANG''S M (1931) AND ORSON WELLES''S TOUCH OF EVIL (1958); Introduction; M and Evil; Confessions; Welles and the Law; Welles and the Noir Landscape; Nothing but Desire; Conclusion: Desire and Evil

CHAPTER THREE - PASOLINI AND THE REMNANTS OF NEOREALISMThe Remnants of Neo-Realism; The Beatific Vision and Pasolini's 'Nightmare'; The Messianic Intruder; Saló and the Ethical Test; Conclusion: 'Til Death Do Us Part; CHAPTER FOUR - 'STRIKE DEAR MISTRESS AND CURE HIS HEART''; Introduction; Masochism and the Law; Christology and Moral Crisis; Conclusion: The Fascist Within; Epilogue: Cavani and Evil; CHAPTER FIVE - 'BARBARISM BEGINS AT HOME'; The Evil That Young Men Do; Mea Culpa (and I Don't Care)/ or: Haneke's Cosmology; Haneke the Augustinian; CHAPTER SIX - DOLI INCAPAX?

Friends and EnemiesEyes Wide Shut?; CHAPTER SEVEN - SEEING AND FAILING TO SEE AGAIN; After Saló; Banal or Radical Evil?; CONCLUSION; POSTSCRIPT; BIBLIOGRAPHY; FILMOGRAPHY

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references, filmography.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-4438-6558-3

OCLC:

887507728