Beware the Wicked Heir

✍ Scribed by Mara McQueen

• Year: 2020
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 162 KB
• Category: Fiction
• ASIN: B08712742W

✦ Synopsis

Vol. 1. -- pt 1. Film and television. -- Mississippi (and Bensonhurst) burning : racist enjoyment, fantasies of contamination, and the real of social evil / Ted Atkinson -- From Conrad Veidt to Christoph Waltz : the Nazi in American film / Aaron Barlow -- The usual suspects : the devil is a storyteller, not a liar / Tiffany Bergin -- Know your killer : changing portrayals of psychosis in horror films / Jeffrey Bullins -- Empire and evil : Star wars, the Romans, and the new mythology / Ralph Covino -- Potter versus Voldemort : examining evil, power, and affective responses in the Harry Potter film series / Laura L. Finley and Kelly C. Mannise -- K.O.'ing communism : Rocky and Rambo fight the Cold War / Justin D. García -- The birth of the black rapist : the "brutal black buck" in American culture / Nicle A. Haggard -- Two eyes for one : the vigilante in American cinema / George Higham -- Suckers for blood : vampire pop culture / Rebecca Housel -- "All I saw was evil" : Supernatural's reactionary road trip / Brian Ireland -- Corporate greed as a representation of evil in pop culture / Jeff Kerner with Howard Forman -- As deadly as a hit man : the hit man and evil in American film / William P. Kladky -- Evil in the films of Martin Scorcese / Vincent LeBrutto -- The monstrous feminine : reimagining aliens in American horror films / Yael Maurer -- The sliding scale of evil : television vampires in a post-Bush world / Kimberley McMahon-Coleman -- Nazi zombies : the horrors of war, revived / Cynthia J. Miller -- Occupied America(ns) : contemporary trends in American possession-horror films / Sean Moreland -- Breaking bad : breaking down the categories of morality through grid and group / Salvador Jimenez Murguia -- Nightmare on Wall Street : zombie bankers and the new contagion / Robert Peckham -- The evil of hunger and survivial in The road / Jody Pennington -- "Freddy's shadow" : nostalgia, evil, and the 1980s in A nightmare on Elm Street / William S. Poole -- "We're them and they're us" : zombies as a reflection of American culture / June Pulliam -- Bad day at Black Rock and the overcoming of evil / Richard Raskin -- Viewing evil through a Hollywood lens, via Steven Spielberg's Schindler's list / Eric Sterling -- Will and programming : good and evil in terminators and humanity / Wendy Wright -- pt. 2. Music and lyrics. -- The dark side of the tune : relocating the crossroads in American popular music, 1930-1970 / Dale Carter -- Slayer and Metallica : two portraits of evil / Daniel R. Fredrick -- "Highway to hell" : laws, lawsuits, and moral panic over heavy metal music / Justin D. García -- "Strange fruit" sounds : the legacy of lynching in America / Katherine L. Turner -- The devil : hip-hop's original hater / Ebony A. Utley.;Vol. 2. -- pt. 1. Novels, poems, and short stories. -- Gender, goth, and gore : evil in the horror fiction of Poppy Z. Brite / Aalya Ahmad -- Inviting the devil to "cross over" the threshold : the short stories of Joyce Carol Oates, iteration, and American fears of precariousness in the 21st century / Jennifer S. Carlberg -- Stephen King : evil in its many forms : children beware! / Laura Colmenero-Chilberg -- Evil monsters in horror fiction : an evolutionary perspective on form and function / Mathias Clasen -- The evils of slavery and their legacy in American literature / Carol Colatrella -- Hannibal : his history and his heirs / Sharon Packer -- The man of the crowd : following Poe and finding evil in popular culture / Caleb Puckett -- "Like rats behind the wainscoting" : evil in American hardboiled fiction / Eric Sandberg -- "Is it safe?" : evil and the escaped Nazi war criminal in American novels in the 1970s / Christoph Schiessl -- What American vampire literature teaches us about dangerous consumption / Andrea Siegel -- pt. 2. Comics, animation, video games, murderabilia, and art. -- "The sanitation man" : erasing evil in Walt Disney / Li Cornfield -- From Pogo to Pennywise : the rise of the evil clown in American pop culture since 1978 / Adam W. Darlage -- Marks of Cain : physical manifestations of human evil in virtual narratives / Shawn Edrei -- Pictures of evil : Francis Bacon's paintings in American popular culture / Monika Keska -- Disney's sorcerers, magicians, and wicked witches and why Disney's approach to evil spoke to America / Martin J. Manning -- Bad psychiatrists in Batman : a mirror into a murderer's mind? / Sharon Packer -- The care and feeding of serial killers : covert cultural values feed the market for murderabilia / Katherine Ramsland -- pt. 3. Newscasts, courtroom cases, and political polemics. -- A touch of evil : rewriting true crime in pop culture / Michael Butterfield and Michael D. Kelleber -- Ted Bundy : celebrity slayer / George R. "Bob" Dekle -- Evil empire and axis of evil : the evocation of evil in political rhetoric / Glen M.E. Duerr -- Child sexualization, abuse, and evil in pop culture / Gregory K. Moffatt -- From Theodore Roosevelt's "dark and evil spirits of malice and greed" to George W. Bush's "axis of evil" : evil in American political rhetoric / Hans C. Schmidt -- Pornography as resilient popular evil / Joseph W. Slade -- pt. 4. Myth and religion. -- The future unwritten : how we learned to love the end of the world / Ryan P. Doom -- Canonical evil : the demonic, the satanic, and the persistence of Catholic paradigms in American supernatural horror / Brenda Gardenour Walter -- Sinister beasts : animal symbolism and the evoluationary roots of evil / Micah Issitt -- The trial of the West Memphis Three : rival visions of evil / Joseph Laycock -- Satan's most popular pawn? : Harry Potter and modern evangelical cosmology / William H. Taylor and Kristi R. Humphreys.