Cultural Expressions of Evil and Wickedness : Wrath, Sex, Crime /
Cultural Expressions of Evil and Wickedness : Wrath, Sex, Crime /
Wrath, Sex, Crime
edited by Terrie Waddell.
- 1 online resource.
- At the Interface / Probing the Boundaries ; 3 .
- At the Interface / Probing the Boundaries ; 3. .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Preliminary Material -- Introduction / Wrath: Purging, Cleansing and Appropriating the Deviant Other / Systemic Book Burning as Evil? / The Destructive Power of Medieval Mythology: A Revisionist View of the Extermination of the Cathars and Pequots / Satanic Subcultures? A Discourse Analysis of the Self-Perceptions of Young Goths and Pagans / The Evils of Christianization: A Pagan Perspective on European History / Sexual Imagery: Locus of Pleasure, Pain, Censorship and Reclamation / The Female/Feline Morph: Myth, Media, Sex and the Bestial / Bad Sex: Second-Wave Feminism and Pornography's Golden Age / "Video Abuse": Gender, Censorship and I Spit on Your Grave / Naked Terror: Horrific, Aesthetic and Healing Images of Rape / Crime: Versions of Guilt, Shame and Redemption / Masking the Evil of Capital Punishment / Interrogating the Penal Gaze: Is the Ethical Prison a Possibility? / The Contraction of the Heart: Anxiety, Radical Evil and Proximity in Patricia Highsmith's Ripley Novels / "I did so many bad things": Sin and Redemption in the Films of Abel Ferrara / Notes on Contributors / Terrie Waddell -- Terrie Waddell -- Rebecca Knuth -- William A. Cook -- Meg Barker -- Michael F. Strmiska -- Terrie Waddell -- Terrie Waddell -- Loren Glass -- Darren Oldridge -- Madelaine Hron -- Terrie Waddell -- Earl F. Martin -- Diana Medlicott -- Fiona Peters -- Paul Davies -- Terrie Waddell.
Cultural Expressions of Evil and Wickedness: Wrath, Sex, Crime , is a fascinating study of the a-temporal nature of evil in the West. The international academics and researchers who have contributed to this text not only concentrate on political, social and legally sanctioned cruelty from the past and present, but also explore the nature of moral transgression in contemporary art, media and literature. Although many forms and practices of what might be called 'evil' are analysed, all are bound by violence and/or the sexually perverse. As this book demonstrates, the old news media axiom, 'if it bleeds it leads,' also extends to the larger pool of popular culture. This absorbing volume will be of interest to anyone who has ever pondered on the exotic, extraordinary and surreal twists of human wickedness.
9789401200974 9789042010154
10.1163/9789401200974 DOI
Immorality.
Social ethics.
Good and evil.
BJ1411
170
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Preliminary Material -- Introduction / Wrath: Purging, Cleansing and Appropriating the Deviant Other / Systemic Book Burning as Evil? / The Destructive Power of Medieval Mythology: A Revisionist View of the Extermination of the Cathars and Pequots / Satanic Subcultures? A Discourse Analysis of the Self-Perceptions of Young Goths and Pagans / The Evils of Christianization: A Pagan Perspective on European History / Sexual Imagery: Locus of Pleasure, Pain, Censorship and Reclamation / The Female/Feline Morph: Myth, Media, Sex and the Bestial / Bad Sex: Second-Wave Feminism and Pornography's Golden Age / "Video Abuse": Gender, Censorship and I Spit on Your Grave / Naked Terror: Horrific, Aesthetic and Healing Images of Rape / Crime: Versions of Guilt, Shame and Redemption / Masking the Evil of Capital Punishment / Interrogating the Penal Gaze: Is the Ethical Prison a Possibility? / The Contraction of the Heart: Anxiety, Radical Evil and Proximity in Patricia Highsmith's Ripley Novels / "I did so many bad things": Sin and Redemption in the Films of Abel Ferrara / Notes on Contributors / Terrie Waddell -- Terrie Waddell -- Rebecca Knuth -- William A. Cook -- Meg Barker -- Michael F. Strmiska -- Terrie Waddell -- Terrie Waddell -- Loren Glass -- Darren Oldridge -- Madelaine Hron -- Terrie Waddell -- Earl F. Martin -- Diana Medlicott -- Fiona Peters -- Paul Davies -- Terrie Waddell.
Cultural Expressions of Evil and Wickedness: Wrath, Sex, Crime , is a fascinating study of the a-temporal nature of evil in the West. The international academics and researchers who have contributed to this text not only concentrate on political, social and legally sanctioned cruelty from the past and present, but also explore the nature of moral transgression in contemporary art, media and literature. Although many forms and practices of what might be called 'evil' are analysed, all are bound by violence and/or the sexually perverse. As this book demonstrates, the old news media axiom, 'if it bleeds it leads,' also extends to the larger pool of popular culture. This absorbing volume will be of interest to anyone who has ever pondered on the exotic, extraordinary and surreal twists of human wickedness.
9789401200974 9789042010154
10.1163/9789401200974 DOI
Immorality.
Social ethics.
Good and evil.
BJ1411
170