Adapting Poe: Re-Imaginings in Popular Culture

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Contents
List of Figures
Acknowledgments
1 Introduction: Poe and the Twenty-First-Century Adaptation Renaissance
2 Edgar Allan Poe and the Undeath of the Author
3 Lusty Ape-men and Imperiled White Womanhood: Reading Race in a 1930s Poe Film Adaptation
4 An “Ambrosial Breath of Faery”: Jean Epstein’s La Chute de la Maison Usher and the Inverted Orphism of Poe’s“ Poetic Principle”
5 Rethinking Fellini’s Poe: Nonplaces, Media Industries, and the Manic Celebrity
6 Evolutions in Torture: James Wan’s Saw as Poe for the Twenty-First Century
7 A Poe within a Poe: Inception ’s Arabesque Play with “Ligeia”
8 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)
9 Horrific Obsessions: Poe’s Legacy of the Unreliable and Self-Obsessed Narrator
10 The Pleasure of Losing One’s Way: Adapting Poe’s “The Man of the Crowd”
11 “The Telltale Head,” “The Raven,” and “Lisa’s Rival”: Poe Meets The Simpsons
12 In the Best Possible Tastes: Rhetoric and Taste in AIP’s Promotion of Roger Corman’s Poe Cycle
13 From the Earth to Poe to the Moon: The Science-Fiction Narrative as Precursor to Technological Reality
14 The Perfect Drug: Edgar Allan Poe as Rock Star
15 That Vexing Power of Perverseness: Approaching Heavy Metal Adaptations of Poe
16 Picturing Poe: Contemporary Cultural Implications of Nevermore
17 What Can “The Tell-Tale Heart” Tell about Gender?
18 Comic Book and Graphic Novel Adaptations of the Works of Edgar Allan Poe: A Chronology
19 The Purloining Critic: Adaptation, Criticism, and the Claim to Meaning
20 Quid Pro Quo, or Destination Unknown: Johnson, Derrida, and Lacan Reading Poe
Notes on Contributors
Index