Monstrous adaptations

Generic and thematic mutations in horror film
Herausgeber: Hand, Richard; McRoy, Jay

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Produktbeschreibung

The first book devoted to the study of horror film and adaptation. Comprised of essays by top scholars in the field, this anthology includes analyses of such under-examined films as Thomas Edison's Frankenstein, John Barrymore's Jekyll and Hyde, Jean Epstein's La Chute de la maison Usher, Gus van Sant's Psycho and Guillermo de Toro's Cronos

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Manchester University Press
• Seitenzahl: 274
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. August 2007
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 222mm x 145mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 480g
• ISBN-13: 9780719076039
• ISBN-10: 071907603X
• Artikelnr.: 22711552

Autorenporträt

Richard J. Hand is Reader in Theatre and Media at the University of Glamorgan in Wales. Jay McRoy is Associate Professor of English at the University of Wisconsin-Parkside

Inhaltsangabe

Monstrous adaptations: an introduction - Richard J. Hand and Jay McRoy PART
I: From page to scream: literary adaptation and horror cinema 1. Paradigms
of metamorphosis and transmutation: Thomas Edison's Frankenstein and John
Barrymore's Jekyll and Hyde - Richard J. Hand 2. Painting the life out of
her: aesthetic integration and disintegration in Jean Epstein's La Chute de
la maison Usher - Guy Crucianelli 3. The unfilmable? H. P. Lovecraft and
the cinema - Julian Petley 4. Imperfect geometry: identity and culture in
Clive Barker's 'The Forbidden' and Bernard Rose's Candyman - Brigid Cherry
PART II: Re-imaginings and re-articulations: thematic adaptation in
contemporary horror cinema 5. Out from the realist underground; or, the
Baron of Blood visits Cannes: recursive and self-reflexive patterns in
David Cronenberg's Videodrome and eXistenZ - Steffen Hantke 6. 'These
Children That You Spit On': horror and generic hybridity - Andy W. Smith 7.
'Our Reaction Was Only Human': monstrous becomings in Abel Ferrara's Body
Snatchers - Jay McRoy PART III: From avant garde to exploitation: cinematic
experiments as monstrous adaptation 8. Adapting the occult: horror and the
avant garde in the cinema of Stan Brakhage and Ken Jacob - Marianne Shaneen
9. The Gorgon: adapting classical myth as gothic romance - I. Q. Hunter 10.
Marion Crane dies twice - Murray Pomerance PART IV: Displacements and
border crossings: horror cinema and transcultural adaptation 11. Adapting
legends: urban legends and their adaptation in horror cinema - Mikel J.
Koven 12. Fulcanelli as a vampiric Frankenstein and Jesus as his vampiric
Monster: the Frankenstein and Dracula myths in Guillermo del Toro's Cronos
- Brad O'Brien 13. Gothic horrors, family secrets and the patriarchal
imperative: the early horror films of Mario Bava - Reynold Humphries 14.
'In the Church of the Poison Mind': adapting the metaphor of
psychopathology to look back at the mad, monstrous 80s - Ruth Goldberg 15.
'Everyone Will Suffer': national identity and the spirit of subaltern
vengeance in Nakata Hideo's Ringu and Gore Verbinski's The Ring - Linnie
Blake