• The sidelong glance
• Codes, cryptograms, and crime scene investigations
• Poe's city of the haunted mind
• Identity as the divided self
• Identity as the enclosed self
• Masks of time
• Poe's psycho-fantastic voyage into reality tv
• Over the chopping block
• Poe at the cineplex: of dungeons and dragon tattoos
• Hurtling through cyberspace.

Greed and guilt, near-indecipherable codes, murder plots born of madness--these motifs drive the best modern mysteries, but they are rooted in the early nineteenth century and the carefully constructed fiction of Edgar Allan Poe. Poe's methods of storytelling and suspense remain relevant, reappearing in detective novels and on screens large and small. This work examines a wide selection of today's mystery and thriller novels, films, television programs, and video games to explore Poe's ongoing influence on popular entertainment. Authors such as Michael Connelly, Stieg Larsson and Dennis Lehane, television shows like The Closer and Dexter, and movies from Laura and Vertigo to Shutter Island and The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo all receive attention. The popularity of Poe's narratives in these contemporary guises is testimony to his visionary genius.
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• 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 Sa and Geraldo Magela Caffaro.
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Adapting Poecollects new interdisciplinary essays by leading scholars that combine the latest work in adaptation theory with fresh discussions of Poe, his work, and popular culture. The book examines a range of genres and media into which Poe has been adapted, such as film, comic art, music, literary criticism, promotional campaigns, television, and internet videos. Each essay will help readers re-evaluate Poe's influence not only on popular culture today, but also as a significant figure in its development. The book also goes far to demonstrate Poe's pervasive and continuing relevance to the images and ideas of contemporary culture.
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• Introduction: Down the yellow brick road
• Reinventing American myth
• Between text and performance
• Wicked and wonderful women
• Race, history, and representation
• Home sweet home
• Magic and witchcraft
• Conclusion: The never-ending yellow brick road.

Since the publication of L. Frank Baum's The Wonderful Wizard of Oz in 1900, authors, filmmakers, and theatrical producers have been retelling and reinventing this uniquely American fairy tale. This volume examines six especially significant incarnations of the story: Baum's original novel, the MGM classic The Wizard of Oz (1939), Sidney Lumet's African American film musical The Wiz (1978), Gregory Maguire's novel Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West (1995), Stephen Schwartz and Winnie Holzman's Broadway hit Wicked: A New Musical (2003), and the SyFy Channel miniseries Tin Man (2007). A close consideration of these works demonstrates how versions of Baum's tale are influenced by and help shape notions of American myth, including issues of gender, race, home, and magic, and makes clear that the Wizard of Oz narrative remains compelling and relevant today.
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• Introduction: The Analytic Instinct and the Art of the Crash
• Chapter 1. Literature and the Museum Idea
• Chapter 2. Realism and the Gordian Knot of Aesthetics and Politics
• Chapter 3. Women and the Realism of Desire
• Chapter 4. Celebrity Warriors, Impossible Diplomats, and the Native Public Sphere
• Chapter 5. Black Bohemia and the African American Novel
• Chapter 6. Wharton, Mass Travel, and the "Possible Crash"
• Chapter 7. Neurological Modernity and American Social Thought Conclusion: Literary Analysis and the Perception of Incongruities Notes Index Acknowledgments.
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Late nineteenth-century America saw an explosion in mass culture-from sensationalist tabloid newspapers to amusement parks to Wild West shows. Historians and critics have traditionally observed the advent of mass culture as undermining literature's central role in the public sphere. Literary writers of the time either reacted with a public show of disdain or retreated to conduct their own private experiments in style and form. In Frantic Panoramas, Nancy Bentley questions these narratives of opposition. For literary writers, Bentley explains, the confrontation with mass culture was less a retreat than a transformation, an ordeal through which habits of contemplative appreciation could be refashioned into new forms of critical thought. By grappling with the energies that marked mass culture, authors came to recognize kinds of human experience that were only then becoming visible as public. William Dean Howells shaped the plots of his novels around tabloid events like rail and trolley accidents and the public chaos of apartment house fires. Although Henry James was distressed at the way dime fiction had changed the very definition of literature, his meditations on mass culture led him to reimagine the novel as a collective "workshop" in which authors and readers jointly discovered new meaning. Bentley offers close readings of these and other writers such as Edith Wharton, James Weldon Johnson, Pauline Hopkins, and Gertrude Bonnin to demonstrate how leading artists took inspiration from commercial culture to create new and distinct literary forms. Drawing on original archival research and a historically grounded theory of realism, Frantic Panoramas is an innovative and comprehensive study of how the emergence of mass culture affected literary culture in America.
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• Picture books in modern times
• Here-and-now fairy tales : old world tradition and modern technology
• Picture-book ethnography : representing the other
• Sentient machines : lonesome locomotives and the mechanized modern body
• Murals in miniature : regionalism, labor, and obsolescence
• Picture book after 1942.