Adapting Poe Re-Imaginings in Popular Culture

by Perry, Dennis R.; Sederholm, Carl H.

• ISBN13: 9780230120860
• ISBN10: 0230120865
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2012-08-07
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Summary

Adapting Poe collects new interdisciplinary essays by leading scholars that combine the latest work in adaptation theory with fresh discussions of Edgar Allan 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 re-evaluates Poe's influence not only on popular culture today, but also as a significant figure in its development. As a whole, this collection demonstrates Poe's pervasive and continuing relevance to the images and ideas of contemporary culture.

Author Biography

Dennis R. Perry is an associate professor of Literature and Film at Brigham Young University. He had published Hitchcock and Poe: The Legacy of Delight and Fear and, with Carl Sederholm, Poe, the "House of Usher," and the American Gothic. Carl H. Sederholm is an associate professor of Humanities at Brigham Young University. He is the co-author of Poe, the "House of Usher," and the American Gothic. In 2006, he was honored with the American Studies Professor of the Year award.

Table of Contents

List of Figures	p. vii
Acknowledgments	p. ix
Introduction: Poe and the Twenty-First-Century Adaptation Renaissance	p. 1
Edgar Allan Poe and the Undeath of the Author	p. 13
Lusty Ape-men and Imperiled White Womanhood: Reading Race in a 1930s Poe Film Adaptation	p. 31
An "Ambrosial Breath of Faery": Jean Epstein's La Chaute de la Maison Usher and the Inverted Orphism of Poe's "Poetic Principle"	p. 45
Rethinking Fellini's Poe: Nonplaces, Media Industries, and the Manic Celebrity	p. 59
Evolutions in Torture: James Wan's Saw as Poe for the Twenty-First Century	p. 71
A Poe within a Poe: Inception's Arabesque Play with "Ligeia"	p. 81
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)	p. 93
Horrific Obsessions: Poe's Legacy of the Unreliable and Self-Obsessed Narrator	p. 105
The Pleasure of Losing One's Way: Adapting Poe's "The Man of the Crowd"	p. 119
"The Telltale Head," "The Raven," and "Lisa's Rival": Poe Meets The Simpsons	p. 133
In the Best Possible Tastes: Rhetoric and Taste in AIP's Promotion of Roger Corman's Poe Cycle	p. 145
From the Earth to Poe to the Moon: The Science-Fiction Narrative as Precursor to Technological Reality	p. 165
The Perfect Drug: Edgar Allan Poe as Rock Star	p. 179
That Vexing Power of Perverseness: Approaching Heavy Metal Adaptations of Poe	p. 193
Picturing Poe: Contemporary Cultural Implications of Nevermore	p. 207
What Can "The Tell-Tale Heart" Tell about Gender?	p. 217
Comic Books and Graphic Novel Adaptations of the Works of Edgar Allan Poe: A Chronology	p. 231
The Purloning Critic: Adaptation, Criticism, and the Claim to Meaning	p. 249
Quid Pro Quo, or Destination Unknown: Johnson, Derrida, and Lacan Reading Poe	p. 261
Notes on Contributors	p. 275
Index	p. 281
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