Product Description: The greatest heroes must face the greatest villains. For decades, Walt Disney Animation and Pixar Animation Studios animated features have offered up some of the most iconic and malevolent villains. Disney Villains: Delightfully Evil showcases rare concept art and photographs and explores the villains' creative origins, roles within the stories, and influences on and within pop-culture...read more

Product Description: Examines the complexities and contradictions that arise when the monsters in the movies are children. Since the 1950s, children have provided some of horror’s most effective and enduring villains, from dainty psychopath Rhoda Penmark of The Bad Seed (1956) and spectacularly possessed Regan MacNeil of The Exorcist (1973) to psychic ghost-girl Samara of The Ring (2002) and adopted terror Esther of Orphan (2009)...read more

Product Description: The films of Alfred Hitchcock are appreciated for a variety of reasons, including the many memorable villains who menaced the protagonists. Unlike so many of cinema’s wrongdoers, the Hitchcock villain was often a complex individual with a nuanced personality and neuroses the common person might not be able to relate to, but could at least understand...read more

Product Description: Bollywood Baddies is the first of its kind book-length narrative of villainy in Hindi films. It discusses villains, vamps and henchmen of Bollywood cinema and also the actors who essayed such characters over the decades. The author discusses not just villains but also the evaluation of villainous characters vis-à-vis sociopolitical conditions in the country...read more

Product Description: The terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, and the subsequent US-led invasions of Afghanistan in 2001 and Iraq in 2003 profoundly affected all aspects of society, including cinema. Or did they? Even now, years after those horrific events, debate still rages over their impact on films...read more

Product Description: The first full-length study of its type highlighting over 150 fictional villains, many famous through their film and TV adaptations including The Daleks and Cruella De Vil, as well as crime fiction favorites. Using essays to highlight different types of villains and focusing on some of the more famous such as Moriarty and Greengrass, popular crime fiction writer and former Chariman of the CWA, Russell James celebrates the role of the fictional villains...read more

Reflecting on the themes of adventure and suspense in both classic and new Disney films, a unique reference is packed with colorful illustrations, annotated drawings, and lively text about the villains everyone loves to hate, from Captain Hook to Cruela De Vil.

Product Description: Jo is too young and adventurous to submit to the stifling morality of the religious mission house where she's grown up.When her friend Emmi runs away to live in a pagan community in the depths of Yorkshire, Jo follows, keen to open her mind and body to the realities of the wild, untamed sex they practise there...read more

Product Description: "Evil needs to be pondered just as much as good," according to Carl Jung, "for good and evil are ultimately nothing but ideal extensions and abstractions of doing, and both belong to the chiaroscuro of life." If we accept Jung's idea as valid, then a tangible representation can be found in the cinematic archvillain, the paradigm of evil...read more

Product Description: Large format trade paperback, 208 pages with many photos, intro by Fay Wray. Book was inspired by Vincent Price's famous one-man dramatic performance, "And the Villians Still Pursue Me."

Two supervising animators for the Disney studios offer an inside look at the great Disney cartoon villains, from the evil Queen Maleficent to Jafar, featuring preliminary sketches, scenes from the films, and discussions on how these characters were created

Product Description: Featuring the contributions of a number of prominent scholars who are conducting pioneering research into the connections between movies and history, Toplin shows how themes addressed in Hollywood films often reflect the interests, hopes, fears, and prejudices of the American people...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)