Penny Dreadful and Adaptation : Reanimating and Transforming the Monster

Will Scheibel

ISBN 10: 3031121821 / ISBN 13: 9783031121821

Edité par Springer International Publishing, Springer Nature Switzerland, 2024

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• Titre: Penny Dreadful and Adaptation : Reanimating and Transforming the Monster
• Éditeur: Springer International Publishing, Springer Nature Switzerland
• Date de parution: 2024
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 3031121821
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9783031121821
• Reliure: Taschenbuch
• État de l'article: Neu
• Dimensions: 210 L x 148 H x 17 P (en millimètres) 210 millimètres de largeur par 148 millimètres de hauteur par 17 millimètres de profondeur
• Poids: 391 grammes

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Synopsis

This edited collection is the first book-length critical study of the Showtime-Sky Atlantic television series Penny Dreadful (2014-2016), which also includes an analysis of Showtime's 2020 spin-off City of Angels. Chapters examine the status of the series as a work of twenty-first-century cable television, contemporary Gothic-horror, and intermedial adaptation, spanning sources as diverse as eighteenth and nineteenth-century British fiction and poetry, American dime novels, theatrical performance, Hollywood movies, and fan practices. Featuring iconic monsters such as Dr. Frankenstein and his Creature, the "bride" of Frankenstein, Dracula, the werewolf, Dorian Gray, and Dr. Jekyll, Penny Dreadful is a mash-up of familiar texts and new Gothic figures such as spiritualist Vanessa Ives, played by the magnetic Eva Green. As a recent example of adapting multiple sources in different media, Penny Dreadful has as much to say about the Romantic and Victorian eras as it does about our present-day fascination with screen monsters.

Hear the authors talk about the collection here: https: //nrftsjournal.org/monsters-all-are-we-not-an-interview-with-julie-grossman-and-will-scheibel/

À propos de l'auteur

Julie Grossman is a professor of English and Communication and Film Studies at Le Moyne College in Syracuse, NY, USA. Her monographs include Literature, Film, and Their Hideous Progeny (2015), Ida Lupino, Director (with Therese Grisham, 2017), Twin Peaks (with Will Scheibel, 2020), and The Femme Fatale (2020). She is co-editor (with R. Barton Palmer) of the essay collection Adaptation in Visual Culture (2017) and (with Marc C. Conner and R. Barton Palmer) Screening Contemporary Irish Fiction and Drama (2022).

Will Scheibel is an associate professor of English at Syracuse University, USA, where he teaches film and screen studies. He is the author of Gene Tierney: Star of Hollywood's Home Front (2022) and, with Julie Grossman, co-author of Twin Peaks (2020).