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245 0 0 _aCultural Expressions of Evil and Wickedness :
_bWrath, Sex, Crime /
_cedited by Terrie Waddell.
246 3 _aWrath, Sex, Crime
264 1 _aLeiden;
_aBoston :
_bBrill | Rodopi,
_c2003.
300 _a1 online resource.
336 _atext
_btxt
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337 _acomputer
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_2rdamedia
338 _aonline resource
_2rdacarrier
490 1 _aAt the Interface / Probing the Boundaries ;
_v3
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 0 _tPreliminary Material --
_tIntroduction /
_rTerrie Waddell --
_tWrath: Purging, Cleansing and Appropriating the Deviant Other /
_rTerrie Waddell --
_tSystemic Book Burning as Evil? /
_rRebecca Knuth --
_tThe Destructive Power of Medieval Mythology: A Revisionist View of the Extermination of the Cathars and Pequots /
_rWilliam A. Cook --
_tSatanic Subcultures? A Discourse Analysis of the Self-Perceptions of Young Goths and Pagans /
_rMeg Barker --
_tThe Evils of Christianization: A Pagan Perspective on European History /
_rMichael F. Strmiska --
_tSexual Imagery: Locus of Pleasure, Pain, Censorship and Reclamation /
_rTerrie Waddell --
_tThe Female/Feline Morph: Myth, Media, Sex and the Bestial /
_rTerrie Waddell --
_tBad Sex: Second-Wave Feminism and Pornography's Golden Age /
_rLoren Glass --
_t"Video Abuse": Gender, Censorship and I Spit on Your Grave /
_rDarren Oldridge --
_tNaked Terror: Horrific, Aesthetic and Healing Images of Rape /
_rMadelaine Hron --
_tCrime: Versions of Guilt, Shame and Redemption /
_rTerrie Waddell --
_tMasking the Evil of Capital Punishment /
_rEarl F. Martin --
_tInterrogating the Penal Gaze: Is the Ethical Prison a Possibility? /
_rDiana Medlicott --
_tThe Contraction of the Heart: Anxiety, Radical Evil and Proximity in Patricia Highsmith's Ripley Novels /
_rFiona Peters --
_t"I did so many bad things": Sin and Redemption in the Films of Abel Ferrara /
_rPaul Davies --
_tNotes on Contributors /
_rTerrie Waddell.
520 _aCultural 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.
588 _aDescription based on print version record.
650 0 _aImmorality.
650 0 _aSocial ethics.
650 0 _aGood and evil.
700 1 _aWaddell, Terrie,
_eeditor.
776 0 8 _iPrint version:
_tCultural Expressions of Evil and Wickedness : Wrath, Sex, Crime,
_dLeiden ; Boston : Brill | Rodopi, 2003
_z9789042010154
830 0 _aAt the Interface / Probing the Boundaries ;
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856 4 _zDOI:
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