The changing face of evil in film and television
By: edited by Martin F. Norden.
Contributors: Norden, Martin F., 1951-.
Series: At the interface/probing the boundaries -- v. 41
Publisher: Rodopi
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Amsterdam; New York, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 244
ISBN-13: 9789042023246
Subjects: Good and evil.; Evil in motion pictures.; Motion pictures -- Social aspects.; Television broadcasting -- Social aspects.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction / Martin F. Norden; title: The bite at the beginning : encoding evil through film title design / Matthew Soar; title: Screening evil in history : Rope, Compulsion, Scarface, Richard III / Linda Bradley Salamon; title: The radical monism of Alfred Hitchcock / Mike Frank; title: Natural evil in the horror film : Alfred Hitchcock's The birds / Cynthia Freeland; title: "The devil made me do it" : representing evil and disarticulating mind/body in the supernatural serial killer film / Matt Hills and Steven Jay Schneider; title: Virtue, vice, and the Harry Potter universe / Thomas Hibbs; title: Training day and The shield : evil cops and the taint of blackness / Robin R. Means Coleman and Jasmine Nicole Cobb; title: The "uncanny" relationship of disability and evil in film and television / Martin F. Norden; title: Comedy and the Holocaust in Roberto Benigni's Life Is beautiful/La vita è bella / Carlo Celli; title: On the void : the fascinating object of evil in Human remains / Garnet C. Butchart; title: The perfidious president and "the beast" : evil in Oliver Stone's Nixon / John F. Stone; title: 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.