Adapting Poe

Re-Imaginings in Popular Culture

By: Dennis R. Perry (Editor), Carl H. Sederholm (Editor)

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Paperback | 7 August 2012 | Edition Number 1

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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.

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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

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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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