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Here are the themes of discussions “Evil in Film and Literature
Films: Chaos (2005); Open Water (2003)
Theme: Evil in the Arts: To What End? To the “End” of Evil? Or to the “End” of “the Good”?
Theater-plays (Films): Othello, Macbeth, Richard III
Theme: A Master Class in Shakespearean Evil & Villainy
Novels: C. Dickens’ David Copperfield; M. Shelley, Frankenstein
Theme: Evil Upbringings: Dickens, “Uriah Heep”; Frankenstein’s “Monster”
Films: Harry Potter; The Exorcist
Theme: Evil Children: “Tom Riddle” in Harry Potter; “Regan” in Exorcist
Films: Terrence Malick, The Thin Red Line
Theme: On a Universal Tendency in Nature to the Dissipation of Mechanical Energy (Lord Kelvin): “…an evil, avenging power in nature” (Malick)
Novel/Article: Thomas Pynchon’s The Crying of Lot 49; Simon Critchley, “What Would David Bowie Do?”
Theme: Thanatos– An “instinct for death” in “Lot 49”; and an “instinct for death” (and resurrection) in David Bowie’s death-death-bed vision of contemporary culture
Film / Essay: Martin Scorsese, Silence (2016); Hannah Arendt, on the “Banality of Evil”
Theme: Arendt’s “Banality of Evil” in Silence
Film: Hannah Arendt (2012)
Theme: “Banality of Evil” in the film Hannah Arendt
Novellas: Flannery O’Connor, “A Good Man is Hard to Find” and “Good Country People”; Hawthorn, “Young Goodman Brown”
Theme: Good and Evil: Is There For Everyone a Clear Distinction?
Film: Spike Lee, Do the Right Thing (1989)
Theme: The Weight of the Past on Our Present Choices: It’s Not Always Easy to “Do the Right Thing”
Films: Stephen Frears, Dangerous Liaisons (1988)
Theme: Evil, Fidelity & Love
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