Table of Contents
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Introduction: From Bad to Worse
MURRAY POMERANCE
I. IT'S A SLIMY WORLD, AFTER ALL
1. Flickers: On Cinema's Power for Evil
TOM GUNNING
2. Monstrosity and the Bad-White-Body Film
GWENDOLYN AUDREY FOSTER
3. Beyond the Thin Line of Black and Blue: Movies and Police Misconduct in Los Angeles
AARON BAKER
4. Genocidal Spectacles and the Ideology of Death
CHRISTOPHER SHARRETT
5. Bad, Worse, Worst: 8MM and Hollywood's Bad Boys of Porn
PETER LEHMAN
6. Toxic Corps: Rage against the Corporate State
KIRBY FARRELL
7. The Ghost World of Neoliberalism: Abandoning the Abandoned Generation
HENRY A. GIROUX
II. AUTEURS OF NEGATIVITY, ICONS OF DARKNESS
8. "How Will I Get My Opium?": Jean Cocteau and the Treachery of Friendship
WHEELER WINSTON DIXON
9. The Sweeter the Kitten the Sharper the Claws: Russ Meyer's Bad Girls
KRISTEN HATCH
10. Wanted for Murder: The Strange Case of Eric Portman
TONY WILLIAMS
11. The Arch Archenemies of James Bond
STEVEN WOODWARD
12. From Fu Manchu to M. Butterfly and Irma Vep: Cinematic Incarnations of Chinese Villainy
GINA MARCHETTI
13. On the Bad Goodness of Born to Be Bad: Auteurism, Evaluation, and Nicholas Ray's Outsider Cinema
DANA POLAN
14. The Villain in Hitchcock: "Does He Look Like a 'Wrong One' to You?"
WILLIAM ROTHMAN
III. THE CHARISMA OF VILLAINY
15. The "Evil Medieval": Gender, Sexuality, Miscegenation, and Assimilation in Cat People
ALEXANDER DOTY AND PATRICIA CLARE INGHAM
16. Wicked Old Ladies from Europe: Jeanne Moreau and Marlene Dietrich on the Screen and Live
E. ANN KAPLAN
17. Darkness Visible: Images of Nazis in American Film
LESTER D. FRIEDMAN
18. "The Whole Fucking World Warped Around Me": Bad Kids and Worse Contexts
CYNTHIA FUCHS
19. Searching for Blobby Fissures: Slime, Sexuality, and the Grotesque
REBECCA BELL-METEREAU
20. Crazy Like a Prof: Mad Science and the Transgressions of the Rational
INA RAE HARK
21. Tom Ripley's Talent
MURRAY POMERANCE
List of Contributors
Index