The Changing Face of Evil in Film and TelevisionThe 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
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 |
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Notes on Contributors | 231 |
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