Bad

BadExamines the many forms of cinematic "badness" over the past one hundred years, from Nosferatu to The Talented Mr. Ripley. Violence and corruption sell big, especially since the birth of action cinema, but even from cinema's earliest days, the public has been delighted to be stunned by screen representations of negativity in all its forms evil, monstrosity, corruption, ugliness, villainy, and darkness. Bad examines the long line of thieves, rapists,

Examines the key role of a hagiographer within a charismatic religious movement

This book will provide the first study of how the Gothic engages with ecocritical ideas

Paul faces pressure from family members and religious authorities alike

It enriches the positivistic literature on conflict and organizations with a focus on non-reductionistic views of conflict

Tell Qraya is predominantly a late-fourth millennium B

The 1937 Paris World's Fair presented a traditionalist image of France as a rural

While power is powerful and weakness is weak

clarifies the interplay between art and politics as it has played out

The relation between Saint Teresa's inner and outer life is defined with new insight and profundity

The book uses the metaphor of ‘double games’ to critically analyse how music education

"A compendium of profound insights

Offering a fresh perspective on the post-war Irish experience in England