TABLE OF CONTENTS -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- INTRODUCTION -- CHAPTER ONE - 'TRYING TO SEE DARKNESS' -- Augustine and Theology -- Responsibility -- The Cathars -- Paradise Lost -- The Language of 'Sin' -- Milton and Augustine -- Kant and the Moral Law -- Immoral Action -- The Act of Evil -- Interlude on Good and Evil -- Lacan and Evil -- In Finale: Kant avec Bataille -- CHAPTER TWO - THE 'DISCOURSE ON EVIL' IN FRITZ LANG'S M (1931) AND ORSON WELLES'S TOUCH OF EVIL (1958) -- Introduction -- M and Evil -- Confessions -- Welles and the Law -- Welles and the Noir Landscape -- Nothing but Desire -- Conclusion: Desire and Evil -- CHAPTER THREE - PASOLINI AND THE REMNANTS OF NEOREALISM -- The Remnants of Neo-Realism -- The Beatific Vision and Pasolini's 'Nightmare' -- The Messianic Intruder -- Saló and the Ethical Test -- Conclusion: 'Til Death Do Us Part -- CHAPTER FOUR - 'STRIKE DEAR MISTRESS AND CURE HIS HEART' -- Introduction -- Masochism and the Law -- Christology and Moral Crisis -- Conclusion: The Fascist Within -- Epilogue: Cavani and Evil -- CHAPTER FIVE - 'BARBARISM BEGINS AT HOME' -- The Evil That Young Men Do -- Mea Culpa (and I Don't Care)/ or: Haneke's Cosmology -- Haneke the Augustinian -- CHAPTER SIX - DOLI INCAPAX? -- Friends and Enemies -- Eyes Wide Shut? -- CHAPTER SEVEN - SEEING AND FAILING TO SEE AGAIN -- After Saló -- Banal or Radical Evil? -- CONCLUSION -- POSTSCRIPT -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- FILMOGRAPHY.