Adapting Poe is a collection of essays that explores the way Edgar Allan Poe has been adapted over the last hundred years in film, comic art, music, and literary criticism. A major theme that pervades the study concerns the more recent re-imaginings of Poe in terms of identity construction in a postmodern era.

"Adapting Poe fills an important gap in the adaptation studies canon and offers a variety of suggestive topics for further research. This reviewer looks forward to finding out how Poe has been appropriated outside the United States for political purposes as a canonical author in American Literature. No one has looked at Poe on radio either in America or elsewhere or examined how he has been reinvented online on Facebook or Twitter. One hopes to find out more about these topics in the near future." - Journal of American Culture

Autorentext
Carl H. Sederholm is an Associate Professor of Humanities at Brigham Young University, USA.

Inhalt
Introduction: Poe and the 21st Century Adaptation Renaissance; Dennis R. Perry and Carl H. Sederholm Edgar Allan Poe and the Undeath of the Author; Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock Lusty Ape-men and Imperiled White Womanhood: Reading Race in the 1930s Poe Film Adaptation; Jessica Metzler An 'Ambrosial Breath of Faery': Jean Epstein's La Chute de la Maison Usher and the Inverted Orphism of Poe's 'Poetic Principle'; Saviour Catania Rethinking Fellini's Poe: Non-Places, Media Industries, and the Manic Celebrity; Kevin M. Flanagan Evolutions in Torture: James Wan's Saw as Poe for the 21st Century; Sandra Hughes A Poe within a Poe: Inception's Arabesque Play with 'Ligeia'; Dennis R. Perry 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); Alexandra Reuber Horrific Obsessions: Poe's Legacy of the Unreliable and Self-Obsessed Narrator; Rachel McCoppin The Pleasure of Losing One's Way: Adapting Poe's 'The Man of the Crowd'; Rebecca Johinke 'The Tell-Tale Head,' 'The Raven,' and 'Lisa's Rival': Poe meets the Simpsons; Peter Conolly-Smith In the Best Possible Tastes - Rhetoric and Taste in AIP's Promotion of Roger Corman's Poe Cycle; Joan Ormrod From the Earth to Poe to the Moon: The Science Fiction Narrative as Precursor to Technological Reality; Todd Robert Petersen and Kyle William Bishop The Perfect Drug: Edgar Allan Poe as Rock Star; Tony Magistrale That Vexing Power of Perverseness: Approaching Heavy Metal Adaptations of Poe; Carl H. Sederholm Picturing Poe: Contemporary Cultural Implications of Nevermore; Michelle Kay Hansen What Can 'The Tell-Tale Heart' Tell About Gender?; Mary J. Couzelis Comic Book and Graphic Novel Adaptations of the Works of Edgar Allan Poe: A Chronology; M. Thomas Inge The Purloining Critic, Adaptation, Criticism, and the Claim to Meaning; Jason Douglas Quid Pro Quo, or Destination Unknown: Johnson, Derrida, and Lacan Reading Poe; Luiz Fernando Ferreira Sá and Geraldo Magela Cáffaro