Bad: Infamy, Darkness, Evil, and Slime on Screen

by Pomerance, Murray

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Full title :Bad : Infamy, Darkness, Evil, and Slime on Screen.

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Publication Date:2003.

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Publisher(s):State University of New York Press
Place of Publication:Albany
Language:eng
Publication Date:2003.

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Description:1 online resource (376 pages).

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ISBN:9780791485811, 0791485811, 9780791459393, 079145939X
oclc:on1058690926
LC Classification:PN1995.9.E93 ǂb B33 2004eb
Dewey Decimal:791.43/653

BAD -- CONTENTS -- ILLUSTRATIONS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- INTRODUCTION. From Bad to Worse MURRAY POMERANCE -- PART I: It's a Slimy World, After All -- 1. Flickers: On Cinema's Power for Evil TOM GUNNING -- 2. Monstrosity and the Bad-White-Body Film GWENDOLYN AUDREY FOSTER -- 3. Beyond the Thin Line of Black and Blue: Movies and Police Misconduct in Los Angeles AARON BAKER -- 4. Genocidal Spectacles and the Ideology of Death CHRISTOPHER SHARRETT -- 5. Bad, Worse, Worst: 8MM and Hollywood's Bad Boys of Porn PETER LEHMAN -- 6. Toxic Corps: Rage against the Corporate State KIRBY FARRELL.

7. The Ghost World of Neoliberalism: Abandoning the Abandoned Generation HENRY A. GIROUX -- PART II: Auteurs of Negativity, Icons of Darkness -- 8. "How Will I Get My Opium?": Jean Cocteau and the Treachery of Friendship WHEELER WINSTON DIXON -- 9. The Sweeter the Kitten the Sharper the Claws: Russ Meyer's Bad Girls KRISTEN HATCH -- 10. Wanted for Murder: The Strange Case of Eric Portman TONY WILLIAMS -- 11. The Arch Archenemies of James Bond STEVEN WOODWARD -- 12. From Fu Manchu to M. Butterfly and Irma Vep: Cinematic Incarnations of Chinese Villainy GINA MARCHETTI.

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