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Author:   Richard Hand ,  Jay McRoy ,  Bethan Hirst
Publisher:   Manchester University Press
Imprint:   Manchester University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 13.80cm , Height: 1.60cm , Length: 21.60cm
Weight:   0.467kg
ISBN:  

9780719076039

ISBN 10:   071907603
Pages:   272
Publication Date:   01 August 2007
Audience:   Adult education ,  Further / Higher Education
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Monstrous adaptations: an introduction – Richard J. Hand and Jay McRoy PART I: From page to scream: literary adaptation and horror cinema 1. Paradigms of metamorphosis and transmutation: Thomas Edison’s Frankenstein and John Barrymore’s Jekyll and Hyde – Richard J. Hand 2. Painting the life out of her: aesthetic integration and disintegration in Jean Epstein’s La Chute de la maison Usher – Guy Crucianelli 3. The unfilmable? H. P. Lovecraft and the cinema – Julian Petley 4. Imperfect geometry: identity and culture in Clive Barker’s ‘The Forbidden’ and Bernard Rose’s Candyman – Brigid Cherry PART II: Re-imaginings and re-articulations: thematic adaptation in contemporary horror cinema 5. 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 Hantke 6. ‘These Children That You Spit On’: horror and generic hybridity – Andy W. Smith 7. ‘Our Reaction Was Only Human’: monstrous becomings in Abel Ferrara's Body Snatchers – Jay McRoy PART III: From avant garde to exploitation: cinematic experiments as monstrous adaptation 8. Adapting the occult: horror and the avant garde in the cinema of Stan Brakhage and Ken Jacob – Marianne Shaneen 9. The Gorgon: adapting classical myth as gothic romance – I. Q. Hunter 10. Marion Crane dies twice – Murray Pomerance PART IV: Displacements and border crossings: horror cinema and transcultural adaptation 11. Adapting legends: urban legends and their adaptation in horror cinema – Mikel J. Koven 12. Fulcanelli as a vampiric Frankenstein and Jesus as his vampiric Monster: the Frankenstein and Dracula myths in Guillermo del Toro’s Cronos – Brad O’Brien 13. Gothic horrors, family secrets and the patriarchal imperative: the early horror films of Mario Bava – Reynold Humphries 14. ‘In the Church of the Poison Mind’: adapting the metaphor of psychopathology to look back at the mad, monstrous 80s – Ruth Goldberg 15. ‘Everyone Will Suffer’: national identity and the spirit of subaltern vengeance in Nakata Hideo’s Ringu and Gore Verbinski’s The Ring – Linnie Blake -- .

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Richard J. Hand is Reader in Theatre and Media at the University of Glamorgan in Wales. Jay McRoy is Associate Professor of English at the University of Wisconsin-Parkside

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