Bad: Infamy, Darkness, Evil, and Slime on Screen (The Suny Series, Cultural Studies in Cinema/Video) - Softcover

Pomerance, Murray

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0791459403 ISBN 13: 9780791459409

Verlag: State University of New York Press, 2003

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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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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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• Verlag: State University of New York Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2003
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0791459403
• ISBN 13: 9780791459409
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 376
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