The fifteen groundbreaking essays contained in this book address
the concept of adaptation in relation to horror cinema. Adaptation
is not only a key cultural practice and strategy for filmmakers,
but it is also a theme of major importance within horror cinema as
a hole. The history of the genre is full of adaptations that have
drawn from fiction or folklore, or that have assumed the shape of
remakes of pre-existing films. The horror genre itself also abounds
with its own myriad transformations and transmutations. The essays
within this volume engage with an impressive range of horror texts,
from the earliest silent horror films by Thomas Edison and Jean
Epstein through to important contemporary phenomena, such as the
western appropriation of Japanese horror motifs. Classic works by
Alfred Hitchcock, David Cronenberg and Abel Ferrara receive
cutting-edge re-examination, as do unjustly neglected works by
Mario Bava, Guillermo del Toro and Stan Brakhage. -- .
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