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List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction: From Bad to Worse MURRAY POMERANCE I. IT'S A SLIMY WORLD, AFTER ALL 1. Flickers: On Cinema's Power for Evil TOM GUNNING 2. Monstrosity and the Bad-White-Body Film GWENDOLYN 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 Death CHRISTOPHER SHARRETT 5. Bad, Worse, Worst: 8MM and Hollywood's Bad Boys of Porn PETER LEHMAN 6. Toxic Corps: Rage against the Corporate State KIRBY FARRELL 7. The Ghost World of Neoliberalism: Abandoning the Abandoned Generation HENRY A. GIROUX II. AUTEURS OF NEGATIVITY, ICONS OF DARKNESS 8. "How Will I Get My Opium?": Jean Cocteau and the Treachery of Friendship WHEELER WINSTON DIXON 9. The Sweeter the Kitten the Sharper the Claws: Russ Meyer's Bad Girls KRISTEN HATCH 10. Wanted for Murder: The Strange Case of Eric Portman TONY WILLIAMS 11. The Arch Archenemies of James Bond STEVEN WOODWARD 12. From Fu Manchu to M. Butterfly and Irma Vep: Cinematic Incarnations of Chinese Villainy GINA MARCHETTI 13. On the Bad Goodness of Born to Be Bad: Auteurism, Evaluation, and Nicholas Ray's Outsider Cinema DANA 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 People ALEXANDER 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 Film LESTER D. FRIEDMAN 18. "The Whole Fucking World Warped Around Me": Bad Kids and Worse Contexts CYNTHIA FUCHS 19. Searching for Blobby Fissures: Slime, Sexuality, and the Grotesque REBECCA BELL-METEREAU 20. Crazy Like a Prof: Mad Science and the Transgressions of the Rational INA RAE HARK 21. Tom Ripley's Talent MURRAY POMERANCE List of Contributors Index