Physical Description
xxi, 244 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
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.
Other Authors/Editors
Norden, Martin F., 1951-
ISBN
9042023244
9789042023246
Notes
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
