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Bad

Infamy, Darkness, Evil, and Slime on Screen

edited by Murray Pomerance

Publisher
State University of New York Press
Initial publish date
Dec 2003
Category
Popular Culture, General, History & Criticism

  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9780791459409
    Publish Date
    Dec 2003
    List Price
    $48.95

  • Hardback

    ISBN
    9780791459393
    Publish Date
    Dec 2003
    List Price
    $128.95

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Examines the many forms of cinematic "badness" over the past one hundred years, from Nosferatu to The Talented Mr. Ripley.

Violence and corruption sell big, especially since the birth of action cinema, but even from cinema's earliest days, the public has been delighted to be stunned by screen representations of negativity in all its forms-evil, monstrosity, corruption, ugliness, villainy, and darkness. Bad examines the long line of thieves, rapists, varmints, codgers, dodgers, manipulators, exploiters, conmen, killers, vamps, liars, demons, cold-blooded megalomaniacs, and warmhearted flakes that populate cinematic narrative. From Nosferatu to The Talented Mr. Ripley, the contributors consider a wide range of genres and use a variety of critical approaches to examine evil, villainy, and immorality in twentieth-century film.

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Contributor Notes

Murray Pomerance is Professor and Chair in the Department of Sociology at Ryerson University. He is the editor of Ladies and Gentlemen, Boys and Girls: Gender in Film at the End of the Twentieth Century, also published by SUNY Press, and Enfant Terrible!: Jerry Lewis in American Film.

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