Bad: Infamy, Darkness, Evil, and Slime on Screen (The Suny Series, Cultural Studies in Cinema/Video)
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Examines the many forms of cinematic badness over the past one hundred years, from Nosferatu to The Talented Mr. Ripley.
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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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edition.
Bad: Infamy, Darkness, Evil, and Slime on Screen (The Suny Series, Cultural Studies in Cinema/Video)
Bad: Infamy, Darkness, Evil, and Slime on Screen (The Suny Series, Cultural Studies in Cinema/Video),Murray Pomerance,State University of New York Press,0791459403,Cinema/Film: Book,Evil in motion pictures,Film & Video - History & Criticism,Media Studies,Performing Arts,Pop Arts / Pop Culture,Popular Culture - General,Sensationalism in motion pictu,Sensationalism in motion pictures,Social problems in motion pict,Social problems in motion pictures
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