Penny Dreadful and Adaptation: Reanimating and Transforming the Monster 1st Edition

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Product details:

• ISBN 10: 3031121805
• ISBN 13:9783031121807
• Author: Julie Grossman

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/

Table contents:

1. Introduction

Part I. Welcome to the Night: Issues of Reading and Media

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

Part II. Anatomy of a Monster: Horror and the Gothic in Literature and on the Screen

5. In the House of the Night Creatures: Penny Dreadful’s Dracula

6. Vampirism, Blood, and Memory in Penny Dreadful and Only Lovers Left Alive

7. “The Dead Place”: Cosmopolitan Gothic in Penny Dreadful’s London

8. Adapting the Universal Classic Monsters in Penny Dreadful: An Uncanny Resurrection

Part III. The Monster Unbound: Theatrical Performance, Western Dime Novels, and TV Noir

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?”

Part IV. Meanings of Monstrosity: Identity, Difference, and Experience

12. Penny Dreadful’s 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

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