Monstrous adaptations : Generic and thematic mutations in horror film / /
The fifteen groundbreaking essays contained in this book address the concept of adaptation in relation to horror cinema. Adaptation is not only a key cultural practice and strategy for filmmakers, but it is also a theme of major importance within horror cinema as a hole. The history of the genre is...
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Manchester : :
Manchester University Press,
[2017]
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| Διαθέσιμο Online: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/jj.21996674 |
Πίνακας περιεχομένων:
- Front matter
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- List of contributors
- Monstrous adaptations
- Part I From page to scream: literary adaptation and horror cinema
- Paradigms of metamorphosis and transmutation
- Painting the life out of her
- The unfilmable?
- Imperfect geometry
- Part II Re-imaginings and re-articulations: thematic adaptation in contemporary horror cinema
- Out from the realist underground; or, the Baron of Blood visits Cannes
- 'These children that you spit on'
- 'Our reaction was only human'
- Part III From avant-garde to exploitation: cinematic experiments as monstrous adaptation
- Adapting the occult
- The Gorgon
- Marion Crane dies twice
- Part IV Displacements and border crossings: horror cinema and transcultural adaptation
- Adapting legends
- Fulcanelli as a vampiric Frankenstein and Jesus as his vampiric monster
- Gothic horrors, family secrets and the patriarchal imperative
- 'In the church of the poison mind'
- 'Everyone will suffer'
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index