The Changing Face of Evil in Film and Television

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BRILL, 1 янв. 2007 г. - Всего страниц: 268
The popular media of film and television surround us daily with images of evil - images that have often gone critically unexamined. In the belief that people in ever-increasing numbers are turning to the media for their understanding of evil, this lively and provocative collection of essays addresses the changing representation of evil in a broad spectrum of films and television programmes. Written in refreshingly accessible and de-jargonised prose, the essays bring to bear a variety of philosophical and critical perspectives on works ranging from the cinema of famed director Alfred Hitchcock and the preternatural horror films Halloween and Friday the 13th to the understated documentary Human Remains and the television coverage of the immediate post-9/11 period. The Changing Face of Evil in Film and Television is for anyone interested in the moving-image representation of that pervasive yet highly misunderstood thing we call evil.
 

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Encoding Evil Through Film Title Design
1
Rope Compulsion Scarface Richard III
17
Chapter 3 The Radical Monism of Alfred Hitchcock
37
Alfred Hitchcocks The Birds
55
Representing Evil and Disarticulating MindBody in the Supernatural Serial Killer Film
71
Chapter 6 Virtue Vice and the Harry Potter Universe
89
Evil Cops and the Taint of Blackness
101
Chapter 8 The Uncanny Relationship of Disability and Evil in Film and Television
125
Chapter 9 Comedy and the Holocaust in Roberto Benignis Life is BeautifulLa vita è bella
145
The Fascinating Object of Evil in Human Remains
159
Evil in Oliver Stones Nixon
177
The Framing of George W Bushs FaithBased Politics of Good and Evil
195
Bibliography
215
Notes on Contributors
231
Index
235
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Martin F. Norden is Professor of Communication at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst, USA. His publications include "Movies: A Language in Light" (Prentice-Hall), "John Barrymore: A Bio-Bibliography" (Greenwood), and "The Cinema of Isolation: A History of Physical Disability in the Movies" (Rutgers).

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