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I thought list members might like to learn about the publication of my
anthology, _The Changing Face of Evil in Film and Television_ (Rodopi,
2007). I am very happy to note that the book includes a chapter written by
frequent FILM-PHILOSOPHY contributor Mike Frank. A description and table of
contents for the book are offered below:
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
addresses the changing representation of evil in a broad spectrum of films
and television programmes. Written in refreshingly accessible and de-
jargonised prose, the essays bring to bear a variety of philosophical and
critical perspectives on works ranging from the cinema of famed director
Alfred Hitchcock and the preternatural horror films _Halloween_ and _Friday
the 13th_ to the understated documentary _Human Remains_ and the television
coverage of the immediate post-9/11 period. _The Changing Face of Evil in
Film and Television_ is for anyone interested in the moving-image
representation of that pervasive yet highly misunderstood thing we call
evil.
CONTENTS:
Introduction
Martin F. Norden
The Bite at the Beginning: Encoding Evil Through Film Title Design
Matthew Soar
Screening Evil in History: _Rope_, _Compulsion_, _Scarface_, _Richard III_
Linda Bradley Salamon
The Radical Monism of Alfred Hitchcock
Mike Frank
Natural Evil in the Horror Film: Alfred Hitchcock's _The Birds_
Cynthia Freeland
"The Devil Made Me Do It": Representing Evil and Disarticulating Mind/Body
in the Supernatural Serial Killer Film
Matt Hills and Steven Jay Schneider
Virtue, Vice, and the Harry Potter Universe
Thomas Hibbs
_Training Day_ and _The Shield_: Evil Cops and the Taint of Blackness
Robin R. Means Coleman and Jasmine Nicole Cobb
The "Uncanny" Relationship of Disability and Evil in Film and Television
Martin F. Norden
Comedy and the Holocaust in Roberto Benigni's _Life Is Beautiful/La vita è
bella_
Carlo Celli
On the Void: The Fascinating Object of Evil in _Human Remains_
Garnet C. Butchart
The Perfidious President and "The Beast": Evil in Oliver Stone's _Nixon_
John F. Stone
Televising 9/11 and Its Aftermath: The Framing of George W. Bush's Faith-
Based Politics of Good and Evil
Gary R. Edgerton, William B. Hart, and Frances Hassencahl
Bibliography
Notes on Contributors
Index
For more information, please contact me and/or click on the following links:
http://people.umass.edu/norden/evil.html
http://www.rodopi.nl/senj.asp?BookId=ATI%2FPTB+41
best wishes,
Marty Norden
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Communication Dept., 409 Machmer Hall norden(at)comm.umass.edu
University of Massachusetts-Amherst fax: 413 545-6399
Amherst, MA 01003 USA vox: 413 545-0598
Home page: http://people.umass.edu/norden
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