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

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.