Packer, S. Pennington, J.W. (2014) History of Evil in Popular Culture: What Hannibal Lecter, Stephen King, and Vampires Reveal about America, ABC-CLIO, LLC.
This text is quite the piece, covering pop culture from film and television to books and music. It was most useful in comparing the types of evil displayed from the intelligent and psychopathic style of malice in Hannibal to the day to day normality of violence in gang shows, even examining the way in which ‘bad’ characters such as Tony Soprano have a type of nobility. This displays the range of ways in which evil can be adapted not only for villains but for perhaps anti hero protagonists or even used as a vehicle for character development from hero to villain.
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