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The changing face of evil in film and television /
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 addresse...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Amsterdam ; New York, NY :
Rodopi,
2007.
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| Colección: | At the interface/probing the boundaries ;
v. 41. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- The Changing Face of Evil in Film and Television; Contents; Introduction; The Bite at the Beginning: Encoding Evil Through Film Title Design; Screening Evil in History: Rope, Compulsion, Scarface, Richard III; The Radical Monism of Alfred Hitchcock; Natural Evil in the Horror Film: Alfred Hitchcock's The Birds; "The Devil Made Me Do It!": Representing Evil and Disarticulating Mind/Body in the Supernatural Serial Killer Film; Virtue, Vice, and the Harry Potter Universe; Training Day and The Shield: Evil Cops and the Taint of Blackness.
- The "Uncanny" Relationship of Disability and Evil in Film and TelevisionComedy and the Holocaust in Roberto Benigni's Life Is Beautiful/La vita è bella; On the Void: The Fascinating Object of Evil in Human Remains; The Perfidious President and "The Beast": Evil in Oliver Stone's Nixon; Televising 9/11 and Its Aftermath: The Framing of George W. Bush's Faith-Based Politics of Good and Evil; Bibliography; Notes on Contributors; Index.