THE CHANGING FACE OF EVIL IN FILM AND TELEVISION
edited by Martin F. Norden
Amsterdam: Editions Rodopi, 2007
At the Interface/Probing the Boundaries, No. 41 (ISSN 1570-7113)
ISBN 978-90-420-2324-6 (paperback), 978-90-420-2325-3 (textbook edition)
244 pages
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.
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 e 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
- Bibliography
- Notes on Contributors
- Index
MARTIN F. NORDEN teaches and writes about film as a Professor of
Communication at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst, USA. His articles
have appeared in such journals as Film & History, Film
Criticism, Journal of Film and Video, Paradoxa, and
Wide Angle, and in numerous
anthologies. He is the author of The Cinema of
Isolation: A History of Physical Disability in the Movies (New
Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1994) and John
Barrymore: A Bio-Bibliography (Westport, CT: Greenwood Press,
1995). His most recent books are Lois Weber:
Interviews (Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2019)
and Pop
Culture Matters: Proceedings of the 39th Conference of the Northeast
Popular Culture Association (Newcastle-upon-Tyne: Cambridge
Scholars Publishing, 2019).
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