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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Outros autores: Blake, Linnie (Contributor), Cherry, Brigid (Contributor), Crucianelli, Guy (Contributor), Goldberg, Ruth (Contributor), Hand, Richard J. (Contributor), Hand, Richard (Editor), Hantke, Steffen (Contributor), Humphries, Reynold (Contributor), Hunter, I.Q (Contributor), Koven, Mikel J. (Contributor), McRoy, Jay (Contributor, Editor), O'Brien, Brad (Contributor), Petley, Julian (Contributor), Pomerance, Murray (Contributor), Shaneen, Marianne (Contributor), Smith, Andy W. (Contributor)
Formato: Licensed eBooks
Idioma:inglés
Publicado: Manchester : : Manchester University Press, [2017]
Acceso en liña:https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/jj.21996674
Table of Contents:
  • 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

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