Penny dreadful and adaptation : reanimating and transforming the monster / Julie Grossman, Will Scheibel, editors.
Grossman, Julie, 1962- editor.; Scheibel, Will, 1983- editor.
2023
PN1992.8.H67
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Title Penny dreadful and adaptation : reanimating and transforming the monster / Julie Grossman, Will Scheibel, editors.
ISBN 9783031121807 (electronic bk.)
3031121805 (electronic bk.)
3031121791
9783031121791
DOI https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-12180-7
Imprint Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, 2023.
Language English
Description 1 online resource (xviii, 282 pages) : illustrations (chiefly color).
Other Standard Identifiers 10.1007/978-3-031-12180-7 doi
Call Number PN1992.8.H67
Dewey Decimal Classification 791.45/6164
Summary Penny Dreadful and Adaptation is a brilliantly curated collection of essays responding to a brilliantly curated collection of media monsters. Julie Grossman and Will Scheibel have summoned an array of expert contributors as our guides to the liminal Demimonde: chapters range across Victorian, cosmopolitan and Sadean gothics, quality TV as a kind of dialogue with fandom, and Penny Dreadfuls own spin-off progeny. Posing new questions about adaptation and its uncanny/medial qualities, this volume will inspire its very own aca-fans and dedicated Dreadfuls alike. Professor Matt Hills, author of Fan Cultures and The Pleasures of Horror Drawing on a wide range of contexts, methods and traditions of representation, Penny Dreadful and Adaptation is endlessly insightful and nuanced. Through the breadth of approaches adopted, this volumes contributors investigate the unbounded textuality of Showtimes landmark television series but also, through this, shed vital new light on the long traditions of retelling that are at the heart of Gothic and horrific cultural forms and their contemporary cultural manifestations. Kate Egan, Senior Lecturer in Film and Media, Northumbria University, UK. 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 Showtimes 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. Julie Grossman is a professor of English and Communication and Film Studies at Le Moyne College in Syracuse, NY, USA. Will Scheibel is an Associate Professor of English at Syracuse University, USA, where he teaches film and screen studies.
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Added Author Grossman, Julie, 1962- editor.
Scheibel, Will, 1983- editor.
Series Palgrave studies in adaptation and visual culture.
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1. Introduction
2. The Medium Is the Model
3. The Adaptive Marketing of Penny Dreadful: Listening to the Dreadfuls
4. Penny Dreadful and Frankensteinian Collection: Museums, Anthologies, and Other Monstrous Media from Shelley to Showtime
5. In the House of the Night Creatures: Penny Dreadfuls Dracula
6. Vampirism, Blood, and Memory in Penny Dreadful and Only Lovers Left Alive
7. The Dead Place: Cosmopolitan Gothic in Penny Dreadfuls London
8. Adapting the Universal Classic Monsters in Penny Dreadful: An Uncanny Resurrection
9. Penny Dreadful and the Stage: Lessons in Horror and Heritage
10. Ethan Chandler, Penny Dreadful, and the Dime Novel; or, Dancing with American Werewolves in London
11. Dreadful Noir, Adaptation, and City of Angels: Monsters, All, Are We Not?
12. Penny Dreadfuls Palimpsestuous Bride of Frankenstein
13. Predators Far and Near: The Sadean Gothic in Penny Dreadful
14. All Those Sacred Midnight Things: Queer Authorship, Veiled Desire, and Divine Transgression in Penny Dreadful
15. Borderland Identities in Penny Dreadful: City of Angels: Urban Planning and Its Impact on Chicano Communities.

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