It's a Slimy World, After All

Tom GUNNING: Flickers: On Cinema's Power for Evil
Gwendolyn Audrey FOSTER: Monstrosity and the Bad-White-Body Film
Aaron BAKER: Beyond the Thin Line of Black and Blue: Movies and Police Misconduct in Los Angeles
Christopher SHARRETT: Genocidal Spectacles and the Ideology of Death
Peter LEHMAN: Bad, Worse, Worst: 8 MM and Hollywood's Bad Boys of Porn
Kirby FARRELL: Toxic Corps: Rage against the Corporate State
Henry GIROUX: The Ghost World of Neoliberalism: Abandoning the Abandoned Generation

Auteurs of Negativity, Icons of Darkness

Wheeler Winston DIXON: "How Will I Get My Opium?": Jean Cocteau and the Treachery of Friendship
Kristen HATCH: The sweeter the kitten the sharper the claws: Russ Meyer's Bad Girls
Tony WILLIAMS: Wanted for Murder: The Strange Case of Eric Portman
Steven WOODWARD: The Arch Archenemies of James Bond
Gina MARCHETTI : From Fu Manchu to M. Butterfly and Irma Vep: Cinematic Incarnations of Chinese Villainy
Dana POLAN: On the Bad Goodness of Born to Be Bad: Auteurism, Evaluation, and Nicholas Ray's Outsider Cinema
William ROTHMAN: The Villain in Hitchcock: "Does he look like a 'Wrong One' to you?"

The Charisma of Villainy

Alexander DOTY and Patricia Clare INGHAM: The "Evil Medieval": Gender, Sexuality, Miscegenation, and Assimilation in Cat People
E. Ann KAPLAN: Wicked Old Ladies from Europe: Jeanne Moreau and Marlene Dietrich on the Screen and Live
Lester D. FRIEDMAN: Darkness Visible: Images of Nazis in American Film
Cynthia FUCHS: "The whole fucking world warped around me": Bad Kids and Worse Contexts
Rebecca BELL-METEREAU: Searching for Blobby Fissures: Slime, Sexuality, and the Grotesque
Ina Rae HARK: Crazy Like a Prof: Mad Science and the Transgressions of the Rational
Murray POMERANCE: Tom Ripley's Talent