A history of evil in popular culture : what Hannibal Lecter, Stephen King, and vampires reveal about America /: what Hannibal Lecter, Stephen King, and vampires reveal about America. (2014)
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- Title:
- A history of evil in popular culture : what Hannibal Lecter, Stephen King, and vampires reveal about America /: what Hannibal Lecter, Stephen King, and vampires reveal about America. (2014)
- Main Title:
- A history of evil in popular culture : what Hannibal Lecter, Stephen King, and vampires reveal about America
- Further Information:
- Note: Edited by Sharon Packer and Jody Pennington.
- Editors:
- Packer, Sharon
Pennington, Jody W, 1959- - Contents:
- IntroductionPART I: NOVELS, POEMS, AND SHORT STORIESChapter 1: Gender, Goth, and Gore: Evil in the Horror Fiction of Poppy Z. BriteAalya AhmadChapter 2: Inviting the Devil to "Cross Over" the Threshold: The Short Stories of Joyce Carol Oates, Iteration, and American Fears of Precariousness in the 21st CenturyJennifer S. CarlbergChapter 3: Stephen King: Evil in Its Many Forms—Children Beware!Laura Colmenero-ChilbergChapter 4: Evil Monsters in Horror Fiction: An Evolutionary Perspective on Form and FunctionMathias ClasenChapter 5: The Evils of Slavery and Their Legacy in American LiteratureCarol ColatrellaChapter 6: Hannibal: His History and His HeirsSharon PackerChapter 7: The Man of the Crowd: Following Poe and Finding Evil in Popular CultureCaleb PuckettChapter 8: "Like Rats behind the Wainscoting": Evil in American Hardboiled FictionEric SandbergChapter 9: "Is It Safe?": Evil and the Escaped Nazi War Criminal in American Novels in the 1970sChristoph SchiesslChapter 10: What American Vampire Literature Teaches Us about Dangerous ConsumptionAndrea SiegelPART II: COMICS, ANIMATION, VIDEO GAMES, MURDERABILIA, AND ARTChapter 11: "The Sanitation Man": Erasing Evil in Walt DisneyLi CornfeldChapter 12: From Pogo to Pennywise: The Rise of the Evil Clown in American Pop Culture since 1978Adam W. DarlageChapter 13: Marks of Cain: Physical Manifestations of Human Evil in Virtual NarrativesShawn EdreiChapter 14: Pictures of Evil: Francis Bacon's Painting in American PopularIntroductionPART I: NOVELS, POEMS, AND SHORT STORIESChapter 1: Gender, Goth, and Gore: Evil in the Horror Fiction of Poppy Z. BriteAalya AhmadChapter 2: Inviting the Devil to "Cross Over" the Threshold: The Short Stories of Joyce Carol Oates, Iteration, and American Fears of Precariousness in the 21st CenturyJennifer S. CarlbergChapter 3: Stephen King: Evil in Its Many Forms—Children Beware!Laura Colmenero-ChilbergChapter 4: Evil Monsters in Horror Fiction: An Evolutionary Perspective on Form and FunctionMathias ClasenChapter 5: The Evils of Slavery and Their Legacy in American LiteratureCarol ColatrellaChapter 6: Hannibal: His History and His HeirsSharon PackerChapter 7: The Man of the Crowd: Following Poe and Finding Evil in Popular CultureCaleb PuckettChapter 8: "Like Rats behind the Wainscoting": Evil in American Hardboiled FictionEric SandbergChapter 9: "Is It Safe?": Evil and the Escaped Nazi War Criminal in American Novels in the 1970sChristoph SchiesslChapter 10: What American Vampire Literature Teaches Us about Dangerous ConsumptionAndrea SiegelPART II: COMICS, ANIMATION, VIDEO GAMES, MURDERABILIA, AND ARTChapter 11: "The Sanitation Man": Erasing Evil in Walt DisneyLi CornfeldChapter 12: From Pogo to Pennywise: The Rise of the Evil Clown in American Pop Culture since 1978Adam W. DarlageChapter 13: Marks of Cain: Physical Manifestations of Human Evil in Virtual NarrativesShawn EdreiChapter 14: Pictures of Evil: Francis Bacon's Painting in American Popular CultureMonika KeskaChapter 15: Disney's Sorcerers, Magicians, and Wicked Witches and Why Disney's Approach to Evil Spoke to AmericaMartin J. ManningChapter 16: Bad Psychiatrists in Batman: A Mirror into a Murderer's Mind?Sharon PackerChapter 17: The Care and Feeding of Serial Killers: Covert Cultural Values Feed the Market for MurderabiliaKatherine RamslandPART III: NEWSCASTS, COURTROOM CASES, AND POLITICAL POLEMICSChapter 18: A Touch of Evil: Rewriting True Crime in Pop CultureMichael Butterfield and Michael D. KelleherChapter 19: Ted Bundy: Celebrity SlayerGeorge R. "Bob" DekleChapter 20: Evil Empire and Axis of Evil: The Evocation of Evil in Political RhetoricGlen M. E. DuerrChapter 21: Child Sexualization, Abuse, and Evil in Pop CultureGregory K. MoffattChapter 22: From Theodore Roosevelt's "Dark and Evil Spirits of Malice and Greed" to George W. Bush's "Axis of Evil": Evil in American Political RhetoricHans C. SchmidtChapter 23: Pornography as Resilient Popular EvilJoseph W. SladePART IV: MYTH AND RELIGIONChapter 24: The Future Unwritten: How We Learned to Love the End of the WorldRyan P. DoomChapter 25: Canonical Evil: The Demonic, the Satanic, and the Persistence of Catholic Paradigms in American Supernatural HorrorBrenda Gardenour WalterChapter 26: Sinister Beasts: Animal Symbolism and the Evolutionary Roots of EvilMicah IssittChapter 27: The Trial of the West Memphis Three: Rival Visions of EvilJoseph LaycockChapter 28: Satan's Most Popular Pawn? Harry Potter and Modern Evangelical CosmologyWilliam H. Taylor and Kristi R. HumphreysAbout the ContributorsIndex. … (more)
- Publisher Details:
- New York : Praeger
- Publication Date:
- 2014
- Extent:
- 1 online resource (880 pages)
- Subjects:
- 809.93353
Social Science -- Popular Culture
Evil in literature
Evil in motion pictures
Evil -- Social aspects
Social Science -- Media Studies
Theory of art - Languages:
- English
- ISBNs:
- 9798216097419
- Related ISBNs:
- 9780313397707
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