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Adapting Poe

Re-Imaginings in Popular Culture

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  • © 2012

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  1. Dennis R. Perry
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  2. Carl H. Sederholm
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Table of contents (20 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-ix
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  2. Introduction: Poe and the Twenty-First-Century Adaptation Renaissance

    • Dennis R. Perry, Carl H. Sederholm
    Pages 1-11

  3. Edgar Allan Poe and the Undeath of the Author

    • Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock
    Pages 13-29

  4. Lusty Ape-men and Imperiled White Womanhood: Reading Race in a 1930s Poe Film Adaptation

    • Jessica Metzler
    Pages 31-43

  5. 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
    Pages 45-58

  6. Rethinking Fellini’s Poe: Nonplaces, Media Industries, and the Manic Celebrity

    • Kevin M. Flanagan
    Pages 59-69

  7. Evolutions in Torture: James Wan’s Saw as Poe for the Twenty-First Century

    • Sandra Hughes
    Pages 71-80

  8. A Poe within a Poe: Inception’s Arabesque Play with “Ligeia”

    • Dennis R. Perry
    Pages 81-92

  9. 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
    Pages 93-103

  10. Horrific Obsessions: Poe’s Legacy of the Unreliable and Self-Obsessed Narrator

    • Rachel McCoppin
    Pages 105-117

  11. The Pleasure of Losing One’s Way: Adapting Poe’s “The Man of the Crowd”

    • Rebecca Johinke
    Pages 119-132

  12. “The Telltale Head,” “The Raven,” and “Lisa’s Rival”: Poe Meets The Simpsons

    • Peter Conolly-Smith
    Pages 133-144

  13. In the Best Possible Tastes: Rhetoric and Taste in AlP’s Promotion of Roger Corman’s Poe Cycle

    • Joan Ormrod
    Pages 145-163

  14. From the Earth to Poe to the Moon: The Science-Fiction Narrative as Precursor to Technological Reality

    • Todd Robert Petersen, Kyle William Bishop
    Pages 165-177

  15. The Perfect Drug: Edgar Allan Poe as Rock Star

    • Tony Magistrale
    Pages 179-191

  16. That Vexing Power of Perverseness: Approaching Heavy Metal Adaptations of Poe

    • Carl H. Sederholm
    Pages 193-205

  17. Picturing Poe: Contemporary Cultural Implications of Nevermore

    • Michelle Kay Hansen
    Pages 207-216

  18. What Can “The Tell-Tale Heart” Tell about Gender?

    • Mary J. Couzelis
    Pages 217-229

  19. Comic Book and Graphic Novel Adaptations of the Works of Edgar Allan Poe: A Chronology

    • M. Thomas Inge
    Pages 231-247

  20. The Purloining Critic: Adaptation, Criticism, and the Claim to Meaning

    • Jason Douglas
    Pages 249-259
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About this book

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.

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"Adapting Poe fills an important gap in the adaptation studies canon and offers a variety of suggestive topics for further research. This reviewer looks forward to finding out how Poe has been appropriated outside the United States for political purposes as a canonical author in American Literature. No one has looked at Poe on radio either in America or elsewhere or examined how he has been reinvented online on Facebook or Twitter. One hopes to find out more about these topics in the near future." - Journal of American Culture

About the authors

Carl H. Sederholm is an Associate Professor of Humanities at Brigham Young University, USA.

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