'Bad' is NetLibrary eBook of the Month for March

DUBLIN, Ohio, USA, 1 March 2006—NetLibrary, a leading platform for full-text digital content in libraries worldwide, in partnership with SUNY Press, will feature Bad:  Infamy, Darkness, Evil, and Slime on Screen as the March eBook of the Month, just in time for the Oscars.  The eBook will be provided free and with unlimited access March 1–31 through more than 13,000 participating libraries.

Even from cinema's earliest days, the public has been delighted to be stunned by screen representations of evil, monstrosity, corruption, villainy and darkness.  Bad:  Infamy, Darkness, Evil, and Slime on Screen examines the long line of thieves, varmints, codgers, dodgers, manipulators, conmen, killers, liars, demons, and cold-blooded megalomaniacs that populate cinematic narrative.  From Nosferatu to Tom Ripley, from evil villains to empires of evil, from psychotic slashers to blood thirsty aliens, the contributors of this publication consider a wide range of genres and use a variety of critical approaches to examine evil, villainy, and immorality in 20th-century film.

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