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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.

• List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction: From Bad to WorseMURRAY POMERANCE I. IT'S A SLIMY WORLD, AFTER ALL 1. Flickers: On Cinema's Power for EvilTOM GUNNING 2. Monstrosity and the Bad-White-Body FilmGWENDOLYN 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 DeathCHRISTOPHER SHARRETT 5. Bad, Worse, Worst: 8MM and Hollywood's Bad Boys of PornPETER LEHMAN 6. Toxic Corps: Rage against the Corporate StateKIRBY FARRELL 7. The Ghost World of Neoliberalism: Abandoning the Abandoned GenerationHENRY A. GIROUX II. AUTEURS OF NEGATIVITY, ICONS OF DARKNESS 8. "How Will I Get My Opium?": Jean Cocteau and the Treachery of FriendshipWHEELER WINSTON DIXON 9. The Sweeter the Kitten the Sharper the Claws: Russ Meyer's Bad GirlsKRISTEN HATCH 10. Wanted for Murder: The Strange Case of Eric PortmanTONY WILLIAMS 11. The Arch Archenemies of James BondSTEVEN WOODWARD 12. From Fu Manchu to M. Butterfly and Irma Vep: Cinematic Incarnations of Chinese VillainyGINA MARCHETTI 13. On the Bad Goodness of Born to Be Bad: Auteurism, Evaluation, and Nicholas Ray's Outsider CinemaDANA 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 PeopleALEXANDER 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 FilmLESTER D. FRIEDMAN 18. "The Whole Fucking World Warped Around Me": Bad Kids and Worse ContextsCYNTHIA FUCHS 19. Searching for Blobby Fissures: Slime, Sexuality, and the GrotesqueREBECCA BELL-METEREAU 20. Crazy Like a Prof: Mad Science and the Transgressions of the RationalINA RAE HARK 21. Tom Ripley's TalentMURRAY POMERANCE List of Contributors Index