Adapting Poe [electronic resource] : Re-Imaginings in Popular Culture /
Perry, D.editor.
Sederholm, C.editor.
Adapting Poe is a collection of essays that explores the way Edgar Allan Poe has been adapted over the last hundred years in film, comic art, music, and literary criticism. A major theme that pervades the study concerns the more recent re-imaginings of Poe in terms of identity construction in a postmodern era.
Description based upon print version of record.
Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of Figures; Acknowledgments; 1 Introduction: Poe and the Twenty-First-Century Adaptation Renaissance; 2 Edgar Allan Poe and the Undeath of the Author; 3 Lusty Ape-men and Imperiled White Womanhood: Reading Race in a 1930s Poe Film Adaptation; 4 An "Ambrosial Breath of Faery": Jean Epstein's La Chute de la Maison Usher and the Inverted Orphism of Poe's" Poetic Principle"; 5 Rethinking Fellini's Poe: Nonplaces, Media Industries, and the Manic Celebrity; 6 Evolutions in Torture: James Wan's Saw as Poe for the Twenty-First Century
7 A Poe within a Poe: Inception 's Arabesque Play with "Ligeia"8 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); 9 Horrific Obsessions: Poe's Legacy of the Unreliable and Self-Obsessed Narrator; 10 The Pleasure of Losing One's Way: Adapting Poe's "The Man of the Crowd"; 11 "The Telltale Head," "The Raven," and "Lisa's Rival": Poe Meets The Simpsons; 12 In the Best Possible Tastes: Rhetoric and Taste in AIP's Promotion of Roger Corman's Poe Cycle
13 From the Earth to Poe to the Moon: The Science-Fiction Narrative as Precursor to Technological Reality14 The Perfect Drug: Edgar Allan Poe as Rock Star; 15 That Vexing Power of Perverseness: Approaching Heavy Metal Adaptations of Poe; 16 Picturing Poe: Contemporary Cultural Implications of Nevermore; 17 What Can "The Tell-Tale Heart" Tell about Gender?; 18 Comic Book and Graphic Novel Adaptations of the Works of Edgar Allan Poe: A Chronology; 19 The Purloining Critic: Adaptation, Criticism, and the Claim to Meaning
20 Quid Pro Quo, or Destination Unknown: Johnson, Derrida, and Lacan Reading PoeNotes on Contributors; Index
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Adapting Poe is a collection of essays that explores the way Edgar Allan Poe has been adapted over the last hundred years in film, comic art, music, and literary criticism. A major theme that pervades the study concerns the more recent re-imaginings of Poe in terms of identity construction in a postmodern era.
Poe, Edgar Allan, 1809-1849
Poe, Edgar Allan, 1809-1849
Poe, Edgar Allan, 1809-1849
Literature, Modern—20th century.
Literature—Philosophy.
Culture—Study and teaching.
Literature, Modern.
America—Literatures.
Motion pictures and television.
Twentieth-Century Literature.
Literary Theory.
Cultural Theory.
Early Modern/Renaissance Literature.
North American Literature.
Screen Studies.