Bad : infamy, darkness, evil, and slime on screen /
Examines the many forms of cinematic "badness" over the past one hundred years, from Nosferatu to The Talented Mr. Ripley.
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| Series: | SUNY series, cultural studies in cinema/video.
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Table of Contents:
- Flickers: on cinema's power for evil / Tom Gunning
- Monstrosity and the bad-white-body film / Gwendolyn Audrey Foster
- Beyond the thin line of black and blue: movies and police misconduct in Los Angeles / Aaron Baker
- Genocidal spectacles and the ideology of death / Christopher Sharrett
- Bad, worse, worst: 8mm and Hollywood's bad boys of porn / Peter Lehman
- Toxic corps: rage against the corporate state / Kirby Farrell
- Ghost World of neoliberalism: abandoning the abandoned generation / Henry A. Giroux
- How will I get my opium? Jean Cocteau and the treachery of friendship / Wheeler Winston Dixon
- Sweeter the kitten the sharper the claws: Russ Meyer's bad girls / Kristen Hatch
- Wanted for murder: the strange case of Eric Portman / Tony Williams
- Arch archenemies of James Bond / Steven Woodward
- From Fu Manchu to M. Butterfly and Irma Vep: cinematic incarnations of Chinese villainy / Gina Marchetti
- On the bad goodness of Born to Be Bad: auteurism, evaluation, and Nicholas Ray's outsider cinema / Dana Polan
- Villain in Hitchcock: Does He Look Like a Wrong One to You? / William Rothman
- Evil medieval: gender, sexuality, miscegenation, and assimilation in Cat People / Alexander Doty and Patricia Clare Ingham
- Wicked old ladies from Europe: Jeanne Moreau and Marlene Dietrich on the screen and live / E. Ann Kaplan
- Darkness visible: images of Nazis in American film / Lester D. Friedman
- Whole fucking world warped around me: bad kids and worse contexts / Cynthia Fuchs
- Searching for blobby fissures: slime, sexuality, and the grotesque / Rebecca Bell-Metereau
- Crazy like a prof: mad science and the transgressions of the rational / Ina Rae Hark
- Tom Ripley's talent / Murray Pomerance.
