Cultural Expressions of Evil and Wickedness

Wrath, Sex, Crime

• Author(s): Terrie Waddell,
• Publisher: Rodopi
• Pages: 226
• ISBN_13: 9789042010154
  ISBN_10: 9042010150
  
• Language: en
• Categories: Health & Fitness / Longevity , History / General , Philosophy / Ethics & Moral Philosophy , Philosophy / Good & Evil , Political Science / General , Social Science / General , Social Science / Anthropology / Cultural & Social , Social Science / Criminology , Social Science / Popular Culture , Social Science / Sociology / General ,

Description:... Preliminary Material --Introduction /Terrie Waddell --Wrath: Purging, Cleansing and Appropriating the Deviant Other /Terrie Waddell --Systemic Book Burning as Evil? /Rebecca Knuth --The Destructive Power of Medieval Mythology: A Revisionist View of the Extermination of the Cathars and Pequots /William A. Cook --Satanic Subcultures? A Discourse Analysis of the Self-Perceptions of Young Goths and Pagans /Meg Barker --The Evils of Christianization: A Pagan Perspective on European History /Michael F. Strmiska --Sexual Imagery: Locus of Pleasure, Pain, Censorship and Reclamation /Terrie Waddell --The Female/Feline Morph: Myth, Media, Sex and the Bestial /Terrie Waddell --Bad Sex: Second-Wave Feminism and Pornography's Golden Age /Loren Glass --"Video Abuse": Gender, Censorship and I Spit on Your Grave /Darren Oldridge --Naked Terror: Horrific, Aesthetic and Healing Images of Rape /Madelaine Hron --Crime: Versions of Guilt, Shame and Redemption /Terrie Waddell --Masking the Evil of Capital Punishment /Earl F. Martin --Interrogating the Penal Gaze: Is the Ethical Prison a Possibility? /Diana Medlicott --The Contraction of the Heart: Anxiety, Radical Evil and Proximity in Patricia Highsmith's Ripley Novels /Fiona Peters --"I did so many bad things": Sin and Redemption in the Films of Abel Ferrara /Paul Davies --Notes on Contributors /Terrie Waddell.