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

About the Author

Murray Pomerance is Professor and Chair in the Department of Sociology at Ryerson University. He is the editor of Ladies and Gentlemen, Boys and Girls: Gender in Film at the End of the Twentieth Century, also published by SUNY Press, and Enfant Terrible!: Jerry Lewis in American Film.