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Informationen zum Autor Richard J. Hand is Reader in Theatre and Media at the University of Glamorgan in Wales Jay McRoy is Professor of English at the University of Wisconsin-Parkside Klappentext 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 Zusammenfassung 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 -- . Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction1. Monstrous adaptations: an introduction - Richard J. Hand and Jay McRoyPart I: From page to scream: literary adaptation and horror cinema2. Paradigms of metamorphosis and transmutation: Thomas Edison's Frankenstein and John Barrymore's Jekyll and Hyde - Richard J. Hand3. Painting the life out of her: aesthetic integration and disintegration in Jean Epstein's La Chute de la maison Usher - Guy Crucianelli4. The unfilmable? H. P. Lovecraft and the cinema - Julian Petley5. Imperfect geometry: identity and culture in Clive Barker's 'The Forbidden' and Bernard Rose's Candyman - Brigid CherryPart II: Re-imaginings and re-articulations: thematic adaptation in contemporary horror cinema6. 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 Hantke7. 'These Children That You Spit On': horror and generic hybridity - Andy W. Smith8. 'Our Reaction Was Only Human': monstrous becomings in Abel Ferrara's Body Snatchers - Jay McRoyPart III: From avant garde to exploitation: cinematic experiments as monstrous adaptation9. Adapting the occult: horror and the avant garde in the cinema of Stan Brakhage and Ken Jacob - Marianne Shaneen10. The Gorgon: adapting classical myth as gothic romance - I. Q. Hunter11. Marion Crane dies twice - Murray PomerancePart IV: Displacements and border crossings: horror cinema and transcultural adaptation12. Adapting legends: urban legends and their adaptation in horror cinema - Mikel J. Koven13. Fulcanelli as a vampiric Frankenstein and Jesus as his vampiric Monster: the Frankenstein and Dracula myths in Guillermo del Toro's Cronos - Brad O'Brien14. Gothic horrors, family secrets, and the patriarchal imperative: the early horror films of Mario Bava - Reynold Humphries15. 'In the Church of the Poison Mind': adapting the metaphor of psychopathology to look back at the mad, monstrous 80s - Ruth Goldberg16. 'Everyone Will Suffer' - national identity and the spirit of subaltern vengeance in Nakata Hideo's Ringu and Gore Verbinski's The Ring - Linnie BlakeIndex...
