** 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 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Martin F. Norden 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 -------------------------------------------------------------------- ---- Online resources for film/TV studies may be found at ScreenSite http://www.ScreenSite.org