Something Wicked This Way Comes

Essays on Evil and Human Wickedness
Erscheinungsjahr 2009
ISBN: 978-90-420-2550-9
Verlag: Brill | Rodopi

Buch, Englisch, Band 57, 212 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 354 g

Reihe: At the Interface / Probing the Boundaries

The papers collected in this volume are expanded from papers given at the 6th Global Conference on Evil and Human Wickedness, which took place in March 2005. The chapters here represent the diversity and interdisciplinary nature of the conference itself covering topics such as historical and theological concepts of evil, media representations of evil, contemporary debates surrounding the Bosnia war and woman perpetrators in Birkenau, and the construction of the Other as evil in the face of the continuing hysteria over AIDS. The range of the papers collected here makes this book essential reading for students of all humanities disciplines.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Balmain, Colette

Drawmer, Lois

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Kriminalsoziologie
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften Interdisziplinär Geisteswissenschaften
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Ethik, Moralphilosophie
• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Colette BALMAIN: Preface
Images of Evil
Geraldine BIDDLE-PERRY and Janice MILLER: “…and if Looks Could Kill:” Making Up the Face of Evil
Colette BALMAIN: Oriental Nightmares: The ‘Demonic’ Other in Contemporary American Adaptations of Japanese Horror Film
Karil KUCERA: Hoping for Heaven, Landing in Hell: Lessons Learned at a Medieval Chinese Grotto
Charles NUCKOLLS: The Cartoon Nationalism of Contemporary Japan
Ethics and Responsibility
Merdijana SADOVIC: Collective Denial: Serbs and the War in Bosnia
William Andrew MYERS: Ethical Aliens: The Challenge of Extreme Perpetrators to Humanism
Alan WATT: The Problem of Evil Beyond Theology
Chris BELL: The Way of the Transgressor is Hard: Personal Experience on Death, Suffering and “Community Responsibility”
Robert W. BUTLER: Teaching About Evil in History: Demonizing Historical Figures
Sex and Seduction
Stephen MORRIS: Remarriage and Ass-F**king: Shifty Byzantine Views of Sex
Anthony F. CRISAFI: The Seduction of Evil: An Examination of the Media Culture of the Current White Supremacist Movement
Frank FAULKNER: “Get Your Kicks on Route 666,” or Why the Devil has all the Best Tunes: Trekkin Through the Darker Side of Heavy Metal Music
Margarita CARRETERO-GONZÁLEZ & Mª Elena RODRÍGUEZ-MARTÍN: Wicked Women: The Menace Lurking Behind Female Independence
Notes on Contributors

Über Autor(innen)

Colette Balmain is an expert in East Asian horror cinema and has just published her first book, Introduction to Japanese Horror Film (Edinburgh University Press: 2008). She has published extensively and given conference papers on Japanese and Korean art and horror cinema. She has also written on American and European horror and science fiction cinema.
Lois Drawmer is a principal lecturer at Buckinghamshire New University, in the School of Arts & Media. Her research interests and publications focus on women artists, 19th century art, gender and culture, media and identity, and the relationship between corporeality and the metaphysical / occult. She has been a Director and Trustee of the De Morgan Foundation and has lectured extensively in the UK and abroad.