Adapting Poe: Re-Imaginings in Popular Culture

Front Matter....Pages i-ix
Introduction: Poe and the Twenty-First-Century Adaptation Renaissance....Pages 1-11
Edgar Allan Poe and the Undeath of the Author....Pages 13-29
Lusty Ape-men and Imperiled White Womanhood: Reading Race in a 1930s Poe Film Adaptation....Pages 31-43
An “Ambrosial Breath of Faery”: Jean Epstein’s La Chute de la Maison Usher and the Inverted Orphism of Poe’s “Poetic Principle”....Pages 45-58
Rethinking Fellini’s Poe: Nonplaces, Media Industries, and the Manic Celebrity....Pages 59-69
Evolutions in Torture: James Wan’s Saw as Poe for the Twenty-First Century....Pages 71-80
A Poe within a Poe: Inception’s Arabesque Play with “Ligeia”....Pages 81-92
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)....Pages 93-103
Horrific Obsessions: Poe’s Legacy of the Unreliable and Self-Obsessed Narrator....Pages 105-117
The Pleasure of Losing One’s Way: Adapting Poe’s “The Man of the Crowd”....Pages 119-132
“The Telltale Head,” “The Raven,” and “Lisa’s Rival”: Poe Meets The Simpsons ....Pages 133-144
In the Best Possible Tastes: Rhetoric and Taste in AlP’s Promotion of Roger Corman’s Poe Cycle....Pages 145-163
From the Earth to Poe to the Moon: The Science-Fiction Narrative as Precursor to Technological Reality....Pages 165-177
The Perfect Drug: Edgar Allan Poe as Rock Star....Pages 179-191
That Vexing Power of Perverseness: Approaching Heavy Metal Adaptations of Poe....Pages 193-205
Picturing Poe: Contemporary Cultural Implications of Nevermore ....Pages 207-216
What Can “The Tell-Tale Heart” Tell about Gender?....Pages 217-229
Comic Book and Graphic Novel Adaptations of the Works of Edgar Allan Poe: A Chronology....Pages 231-247
The Purloining Critic: Adaptation, Criticism, and the Claim to Meaning....Pages 249-259
Quid Pro Quo, or Destination Unknown: Johnson, Derrida, and Lacan Reading Poe....Pages 261-273
Back Matter....Pages 275-285