| Description |
1 online resource (vi, 285 pages) : illustrations |
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Horrific Obsessions: Poe's Legacy of the Unreliable Narrator -- Rachel McCoppin *€Identity Crisis and Personality Disorders in Edgar Allan Poe's "William Wilson" (1839), David Fincher's Fight Club (1999), and James Mangold's Identity (2003) -- Alexandra Reuber * From the "Tell-Tale Head" via "The Raven" to "Lisa's Rival": Edgar Allan Poe meets the Simpsons -- Peter Conolly-Smith * Evolutions in Torture: James Wan's Saw as Poe for the 21st Century * Sandra Hughes * From the Earth to Poe to the Moon: The Science Fiction Narrative as Precursor to Technical Reality -- Kyle William bishop and Todd Robert Petersen * Edgar Poe, Rock Star: The Music Videos of Nine Inch Nails -- Tony Magistrale * A Poe within a Poe: Inception's Homage to Arabesque Design -- Dennis R. Perry * Picturing Poe: Contemporary Cultural Implications of Nevermore: A Graphic Adaptation of Edgar Allan Poe's Short Stories -- Michelle Kay Hansen * The Purloined Critic: Literary Criticism as Adaptation -- Jason Douglas * In the Best Possible Tale: AIP's Promotion of Roger Corman's Masque of the Red Death (1964) -- Joan Ormrod * Jan Svankmajer and Edgar Allan Poe: Surrealism, Abject Horror, and Exploitive Adaptation -- William Verrone * Melancholy, Neurasthenia and Mesmerism in the First Filmic Adaptation of The Fall of the House of Usher (Epstein, 1928) -- M. Solįa Barreiro * An "ambrosial Breath of Faery": Jean Epstein's La Chute de la Maison Usher and the € Inverted Orphism of Poe's "Poetic Principle" -- Saviour Catania * Rethinking Fellini's Poe: dispersive Communication, International Pop Modernism, and Stardom in Toby Dammit -- Kevin M. Flanagan * Iron Maidens: Poe and Heavy Metal -- Carl H. Sederholm * What can the Graphic version of "The Tell-Tale Heart" tell about Gender? -- Mary J. Couzelis * Poe, Bloch and Literary Adaptation in "The Man Who Collected Poe" -- Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock * Lusty Ape-Men and imperiled White Womanhood: Reading Race in the 1930s Film Adaptations of Poe -- Jessica Metzler * Tell-Tale Hysteria: D.W. Griffith's The Avenging Conscience (1914) as Experimental Narrative -- Robert Singer *€Poe in the Early Soviet Cinema and Culture -- Vincent Bohlinger * Still Walking the Streets: Edgar Allan Poe's "The Man of the Crowd" and Rewritings of the Flaneur -- Rebecca Johinke * Quid Pro Quo, or Destination Unknown: Johnson, Derrida, and Lacan Adapting Poe to Post-Structuralism -- Luiz Fernando Ferreira S̀ * A Chronological Bibliography of Poe in the Comics and Graphic Novels -- M. Thomas Inge |
| Summary |
Adapting Poecollects new interdisciplinary essays by leading scholars that combine the latest work in adaptation theory with fresh discussions of Poe, his work, and popular culture. The book examines a range of genres and media into which Poe has been adapted, such as film, comic art, music, literary criticism, promotional campaigns, television, and internet videos. Each essay will help readers re-evaluate Poe's influence not only on popular culture today, but also as a significant figure in its development. The book also goes far to demonstrate Poe's pervasive and continuing relevance to the images and ideas of contemporary culture |
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"Adapting Poe collects new interdisciplinary essays by leading scholars that combine the latest work in adaptation theory with fresh discussions of Poe, his work, and popular culture. The book examines a range of genres and media into which Poe has been adapted, such as film, comic art, music, literary criticism, promotional campaigns, television, and internet videos. Each essay will help readers re-evaluate Poe's influence not only on popular culture today, but also as a significant figure in its development. The book also goes far to demonstrate Poe's pervasive and continuing relevance to the images and ideas of contemporary culture"-- Provided by publisher |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
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Poe, Edgar Allan, 1809-1849 -- Criticism and interpretation
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Poe, Edgar Allan, 1809-1849 -- Adaptations
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Poe, Edgar Allan, 1809-1849 -- Influence
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Poe, Edgar Allan, 1809-1849 fast |
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Poe, Edgar Allan 1809-1849 gnd |
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Popular culture and literature.
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Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers -- English -- USA.
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Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900 -- English -- USA.
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- American -- General.
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PERFORMING ARTS -- Film & Video -- General.
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- Short Stories.
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Literature.
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Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)
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Popular culture and literature
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Massenkultur
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Rezeption
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Adaptations
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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dissertations.
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Academic theses.
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Thèses et écrits académiques.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Perry, Dennis R
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Sederholm, Carl Hinckley
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| ISBN |
9781137041982 |
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1137041986 |
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9781283588188 |
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1283588188 |
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