{"id":153462,"date":"2021-01-13T15:16:00","date_gmt":"2021-01-13T12:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/the-aesthetics-of-evil-in-film\/"},"modified":"2021-01-13T15:16:00","modified_gmt":"2021-01-13T12:16:00","slug":"the-aesthetics-of-evil-in-film","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/the-aesthetics-of-evil-in-film\/","title":{"rendered":"#The Aesthetics of Evil in Film"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_85 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a4155f18592a\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/label><input type=\"checkbox\"  id=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a4155f18592a\" checked aria-label=\"Toggle\" \/><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/the-aesthetics-of-evil-in-film\/#Who_made_this\" >Who made this?<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-2\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/the-aesthetics-of-evil-in-film\/#More_Videos_Like_This\" >More Videos Like This<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<p>&#8220;<strong>#The Aesthetics of Evil in Film<\/strong>&#8221;<\/p>\n<div>\n<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\">\n                <\/aside>\n<p><!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 3.7.8--><\/p>\n<p id=\"block-517f905a-d4aa-4ccc-bc15-dbaed5d6c7ad\"><em>Welcome to <strong>The Queue<\/strong> \u2014 your daily distraction of curated video content sourced from across the web. Today, we\u2019re watching a video essay about the aesthetics of evil in film<\/em>.<\/p>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator is-style-wide\" id=\"block-9dd37ce8-fe90-4a64-b5c6-d5489b56104b\"\/>To quote a wise tweet I once saw: \u201cIdeologically, I don\u2019t agree with villains. But it\u2019s hard to argue with the way they\u2019re dressed.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Indeed, when it comes to looks, villains frequently reign supreme. It\u2019s hard not to marvel at Reverend Powell\u2019s knuckle tattoos in <em><strong>The Night of the Hunter<\/strong><\/em> or Dracula\u2019s tiny royal blue-tinted glasses in <em><strong>Bram Stoker\u2019s Dracula<\/strong><\/em>. One might even be inclined to whisper, in admiration, that such duds are \u201can aesthetic.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>Now, in the modern parlance, \u201caesthetic\u201d has become a way of describing the principles of a particular artistic movement or merely that something is \u201cpleasing to look at.\u201d But today we\u2019re going to be talking about the <em>aesthetic <\/em>of evil in a different sense.<\/p>\n<p>Aesthetics (also spelled esthetics) is a branch of philosophy that deals with the nature of beauty, art, and taste. It is, <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/general\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"3\" title=\"General\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">general<\/a>ly, the way in which we gr<a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a>le with heady subjective values like the ugly, the sublime, and, to bring it all back: the evil. <\/p>\n<p>Aesthetics (and the philosophy of art, which comes out of aesthetics) are ways of interrogating <em>what art does. <\/em>So when we\u2019re talking about \u201cthe aesthetics of evil\u201d what we mean, in a philosophical sense, is to reflect on the ways in which art represents evil.<\/p>\n<p>The video below does just that, digging into a sizeable handful of films to investigate how each of them, respectfully, chooses to manifest evil. By unpacking everything from shot composition to lighting and color theory, the essay scratches the surface of how film grapples with one of the most persistent abstract concepts in storytelling.<\/p>\n<p id=\"block-d43cf41b-9c21-4c1c-a459-1de27d5765c4\">Watch \u201c<strong>The Aesthetics of Evil<\/strong>\u201c:<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"The Aesthetic of Evil\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/W4JPZonR9po?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<h2 id=\"block-76de6f88-1aeb-42e5-8d0d-63b6b34c391c\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Who_made_this\"><\/span>Who made this?<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p id=\"block-19294f9d-99fc-4cee-8ca7-135f7eaf7b45\">Today\u2019s video was created by Luiza Liz Bond, a.k.a.\u00a0<strong>Art Regard<\/strong>, a UK-based video essayist and a co-creator of\u00a0<strong>The Cinema Cartography<\/strong> with Lewis Michael Bond. Her videos investigate the intersections of film and philosophy. You can check out  The Cinema Cartography\u2019s website\u00a0<a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thecinemacartography.com\/\">here<\/a>. You can check out their back catalog of videos\u00a0<a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/c\/ArtRegard\/videos\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"block-2e33b616-0a4b-44a5-a355-1780a35a597e\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"More_Videos_Like_This\"><\/span>More Videos Like This<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<\/div>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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