** apologies for cross-postings **

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).  A description and table of contents 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 programs.  Written in refreshingly accessible and de-
jargonized 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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