Literature, Film, and Their Hideous Progeny [electronic resource] : Adaptation and ElasTEXTity /
Grossman, Julie.author.
This book posits adaptations as 'hideous progeny,' Mary Shelley's term for her novel, Frankenstein . Like Shelley's novel and her fictional Creature, adaptations that may first be seen as monstrous in fact compel us to shift our perspective on known literary or film works and the cultures that gave rise to them.
Description based upon print version of record.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction -- Journeys and authorship. "it's alive!": the monster and the automaton as film and filmmakers -- Lightening up: reappearing hearts of darkness -- Hideous fraternities: the Coen Brothers hit the road -- Textual and marginal identities. Imitations of life and art -- The quiet presence of "The yellow wallpaper" in Todd Haynes's Safe -- Musical theater and independent film -- Immersive theater and the monstrous avant-garde. Adapting time and place: avant-garde storytelling and immersive theater -- Film adapts time: Christian Marclay's The clock -- Cape Fear, The Simpsons, and Anne Washburn's post-apocalyptic Mr. Burns, a post-electric play -- Epilogue.
This book posits adaptations as 'hideous progeny,' Mary Shelley's term for her novel, Frankenstein . Like Shelley's novel and her fictional Creature, adaptations that may first be seen as monstrous in fact compel us to shift our perspective on known literary or film works and the cultures that gave rise to them.
Motion pictures—History.
Literature.
Arts.
Motion pictures and television.
Film History.
Literature, general.
Arts.
Screen Studies.