I Wear the Black Hat: Grappling with Villains (Real and Imagined), (Paperback)

from Y2Ash

I Wear the Black Hat is Chuck Klosterman's attempt to explain the moral ambiguity of the term "villain." Villains, nowadays, do not wear the "black hat while twirling the handlebar mustache gleefully waiting for the train to kill whichever damsel-in-distress they've tied to the tracks." Instead, ...

from Y2Ash

I Wear the Black Hat is Chuck Klosterman's attempt to explain the moral ambiguity of the term "villain." Villains, nowadays, do not wear the "black hat while twirling the handlebar mustache gleefully waiting for the train to kill whichever damsel-in-distress they've tied to the tracks." Instead, ...

from rivkat

Quirky meditations on the nature of villainy/rock and roll authenticity/other stuff. Klosterman's basic argument, though he doesn't endorse it all the way, is that the villain is the person in a story who knows the most and cares the least. Moments of interest, but fairly light.

from rmagahiz

It's not about the kind of villains you're probably thinking of, except for the one token chapter about Hitler, but spends more time on the public figures decried widely in the 1980s and 1990s, a few from this century. Even though I lived through that time, it had the effect on me of thinking "oh...

from Y2Ash

I Wear the Black Hat is Chuck Klosterman's attempt to explain the moral ambiguity of the term "villain." Villains, nowadays, do not wear the "black hat while twirling the handlebar mustache gleefully waiting for the train to kill whichever damsel-in-distress they've tied to the tracks." Instead, ...