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Picturing Poe: Contemporary Cultural Implications of Nevermore
Nestled in the final pages of Nevermore: A Graphic Adaptation of Edgar Allan Poe’s Short Stories (2008) is a brief comic-formatted biography entitled “The Facts of the Case of Edgar Allan Poe.” It begins with a q...
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Quid Pro Quo, or Destination Unknown: Johnson, Derrida, and Lacan Reading Poe
Edgar Allan Poe wrote J. R. Lowell a letter dated July 2, 1844, in which he stated that “‘The Purloined Letter,’ forthcoming in ‘The Gift’ is perhaps the best of my tales of ratiocination” (qtd. in Mabbot 3). ...
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Evolutions in Torture: James Wan’s Saw as Poe for the Twenty-First Century
Poe begins his tale “The Pit and the Pendulum” with a chilling Latin epigraph, which reads, in part, “Here an insatiable band of torturers long wickedly nourished their lusts for innocent blood” (Levine and Le...
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Comic Book and Graphic Novel Adaptations of the Works of Edgar Allan Poe: A Chronology
The following chronology is based on the best available bibliographic data and, when possible, an examination of each item by the compiler. While the information is not always complete, when known the writer (...
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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)
“Who am I?” and “Who are you?” are questions that express an existing opposition as well as an intertwined relation between the self and the external other (social, professional, and political surrounding), as...
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“The Telltale Head,” “The Raven,” and “Lisa’s Rival”: Poe Meets The Simpsons
The sun rises over Springfield, USA. Bad boy Bart Simpson rolls over in bed, yawns, and opens his eyes to behold the grotesque presence of a severed head lying on his pillow. He emits an involuntary yelp of ho...
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Introduction: Poe and the Twenty-First-Century Adaptation Renaissance
Edgar Allan Poe’s connection to contemporary popular culture should no longer raise questions of “where” or “why,” but of “what” and “how.” For years, a number of scholars have adequately tracked Poe’s appeara...
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Rethinking Fellini’s Poe: Nonplaces, Media Industries, and the Manic Celebrity
Edgar Allan Poe’s short story “Never Bet the Devil Your Head,” which first appeared in Graham’s Magazine in 1841, briefly charts the unfortunate life, and even more unfortunate death, of a pitiful character calle...
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What Can “The Tell-Tale Heart” Tell about Gender?
In 2001, M. Thomas Inge argued that Edgar Allan Poe is one of the most popular authors to inspire graphic narratives, with over two hundred comic books adapting his stories (2). With so many graphic adaptation...
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A Poe within a Poe: Inception’s Arabesque Play with “Ligeia”
While this paper discusses Christopher Nolan’s Inception (2010) as an adaptation of Poe’s “Ligeia,” Nolan neither cites nor perhaps even recognizes it as such. Like Poe’s tale, Inception involves a man so obsesse...
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The Purloining Critic: Adaptation, Criticism, and the Claim to Meaning
Madeline strangles Roderick; after which they both perish in the conflagration of the ancestral Usher home. This climactic moment in the 1960 film House of Usher rewrites Madeline’s “violent and now final death-a...
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The Pleasure of Losing One’s Way: Adapting Poe’s “The Man of the Crowd”
The fact that Edgar Allan Poe’s life and work remain a popular source text for adaptation is well established. Any search of a movie database like IMDB or a simple Wikipedia search using “Poe” and “adaptations...
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In the Best Possible Tastes: Rhetoric and Taste in AlP’s Promotion of Roger Corman’s Poe Cycle
One day over lunch in 1960, American International Pictures (AIP) executives Samuel Z. Arkoff and James Nicholson asked Roger Corman, their in-house director, to make two black-and-white horror films at $100,0...
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Edgar Allan Poe and the Undeath of the Author
As cult film classic Danza Macabra (1964, released in the United States as Castle of Blood) opens, journalist Alan Foster (Georges Rivière) enters the London Four Devils tavern and intrudes upon a story in progre...
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The Perfect Drug: Edgar Allan Poe as Rock Star
There is a moment in “Ligeia,” one of Poe’s many tales of heterosexual love gone horribly askew, where the unnamed male narrator informs us that he has deliberately placed his wife, the blond Lady Rowena of Tr...
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An “Ambrosial Breath of Faery”: Jean Epstein’s La Chute de la Maison Usher and the Inverted Orphism of Poe’s “Poetic Principle”
Representative of the paradoxical position that Jean Epstein’s La Chute de la Maison Usher (1928) usually occupies in Poe film criticism is the Aurum’s anonymous critic’s assertion that, “[t]hough often dazzling ...
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From the Earth to Poe to the Moon: The Science-Fiction Narrative as Precursor to Technological Reality
The core assumption about adaptation concerns the transformation of a narrative’s form, usually from one medium into another. Adaptation studies has traditionally focused on the relationship between a written ...
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Lusty Ape-men and Imperiled White Womanhood: Reading Race in a 1930s Poe Film Adaptation
Universal Picture’s precode 1932 horror-film classic Murders in the Rue Morgue is a less-than-faithful adaptation of Edgar Allan Poe’s 1841 short story of the same name. Although the film strays far from its sour...
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That Vexing Power of Perverseness: Approaching Heavy Metal Adaptations of Poe
Since its beginnings in the late 1960s, heavy metal’s dominant themes have revolved around notions of power, rebellion, transgression, and transcendence (Walser 9). Not simply interested in sex, drugs, and roc...
