Hand / McRoy Monstrous adaptations

Generic and thematic mutations in horror film
1. Auflage 2017
ISBN: 978-1-5261-2543-9
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 272 Seiten, Web PDF, Format (B × H): 138 mm x 216 mm

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

Autoren/Hrsg.

Hand, Richard

McRoy, Jay

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Filmwissenschaft, Fernsehen, Radio Filmgeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

Hand Richard:
Richard J. Hand is Reader in Theatre and Media at the University of Glamorgan in WalesMcRoy Jay:
Jay McRoy is Professor of English at the University of Wisconsin-ParksideRichard 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