Adapting Poe Re-Imaginings in Popular Culture
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 Po
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Adapting Poe
10.1057/9781137041982 - Adapting Poe, Edited by Dennis R. Perry and Carl H. Sederholm
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Adapting Poe Re-Imaginings in Popular Culture Edited by Dennis R. Perry and Carl H. Sederholm
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ADAPTING POE
Copyright © Dennis R. Perry and Carl H. Sederholm, 2012. First published in 2012 by PALGRAVE MACMILLAN® in the United States— a division of St. Martin’s Press LLC, 175 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10010. Where this book is distributed in the UK, Europe and the rest of the world, this is by Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited, registered in England, company number 785998, of Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire RG21 6XS. Palgrave Macmillan is the global academic imprint of the above companies and has companies and representatives throughout the world. Palgrave® and Macmillan® are registered trademarks in the United States, the United Kingdom, Europe and other countries. ISBN: 978–0–230–12086–0 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Adapting Poe : re-imaginings in popular culture / edited by Dennis R. Perry and Carl H. Sederholm. p. cm. ISBN 978–0–230–12086–0 (hardback) 1. Poe, Edgar Allan, 1809–1849—Criticism and interpretation. 2. Poe, Edgar Allan, 1809–1849—Adaptations. 3. Poe, Edgar Allan, 1809–1849—Influence. 4. Popular culture and literature. I. Perry, Dennis R. II. Sederholm, Carl Hinckley. PS2638.A43 2012 818⬘.309—dc23
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List of Figures
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Acknowledgments
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1 Introduction: Poe and the Twenty-First-Century Adaptation Renaissance Dennis R. Perry and Carl H. Sederholm 2 Edgar Allan Poe and the Undeath of the Author Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock 3 Lusty Ape-men and Imperiled White Womanhood: Reading Race in a 1930s Poe Film Adaptation Jessica Metzler 4 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
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5 Rethinking Fellini’s Poe: Nonplaces, Media Industries, and the Manic Celebrity Kevin M. Flanagan
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6 Evolutions in Torture: James Wan’s Saw as Poe for the Twent
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