Adapting Poe

Re-Imaginings in Popular Culture

D. Perry, C. Sederholm, D. Perry, C. Sederholm

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• Year: 2012
• Print ISBN:
  9780230120860
• eBook ISBN:
  9781137041982
• Topic: Literature
• Subtopic: Film & Video
• Index: Literature

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.

Table of contents

• 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 Reality
• 14 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 Poe
• Notes on Contributors
• Index