What constitutes a villain? How does villainy differ from evil? Is Captain Hook a villain - or is Peter Pan? Do portrayals of villainy from places as far apart as the Yemen, Italy and Ireland show common characteristics? Do villains created for children s fiction differ from those created for adults? This volume attempts to answer these questions and more; it also presents an overview of various directions within this field of study. The villains considered in this volume come from a stimulatingly eclectic range of sources. The media examined range from comic books to film and from novels to television serials; the narratives in their various forms come from a broad selection of times and places. Equally wide-ranging, too, is the degree of academic canonicity of the works in question: from the Babylon 5 franchise to the Matrix films and from a book as extensively studied as Nineteen Eighty-Four to one as little-known as Michael Baggett s Soapstone. This volume should not be seen as the end of a process but rather as a stage in one still on-going: villains fascinate us as readers and spectators, but they also continue to intrigue as objects of study, raising troubling questions about the role of narrative both in both fiction and real life.
The triumvirate of evil: the major villains of Don Rosa's Donald Duck comics
págs. 3-24
I want more!: the insatiable villain in children's literature and young adult fiction
págs. 25-38
Peter Pan and the tyranny of youth: an apologia for Captain Hook
págs. 39-50
págs. 53-77
"I'm the man in the dark room": the puppetmaster from cosmic adversary to cosmic villain
págs. 79-92
págs. 93-108
"Washington's troops skinned dead indians from the waist down and made leggins from the skins": reiterating villainy in native American gothic fiction
págs. 111-128
The urban anti-hero: misrepresenting city crime figures in Dublin and Rome
págs. 129-145
págs. 147-160
Cyborg villain: mechanical hybridity and existencial fear
págs. 163-177
The evolutionary villain: Alfred Bester as victim and villain
págs. 179-199
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