CFP: Evil in the Films of M. Night Shyamalan (8/15/05; collection)
M. Night Shyamalan has emerged as a noteworthy American filmmaker -- he has even been compared to Hitchcock -- yet very little scholarly attention has been paid to his work.
As all of Shyamalan's films explore the encounter with, or the nature of evil, and as the scholarly examination of evil, ethics/morality, and religion has become a timely one, I am proposing a collection of new essays on evil and/in Shyamalan's films.
The working title for the collection is "'Those we don't speak of': Essays on Evil in the Films of M. Night Shyamalan".