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Agatha Christie and Gothic Horror : Adaptations and Televisuality / Stuart Richards.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Horror and Gothic Media Cultures ; 5Publisher: Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, [2024]Copyright date: 2024Description: 1 online resource (214 p.)Content type:
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  • 9789048556649
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 791.43/6164 23/eng/20240516
LOC classification:
  • PR6005.H66 R53 2024
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  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: Dark Moods and Deadly Puzzles -- 1. And Then There Were None and Fantastic Horror -- 2. Ordeal by Innocence and the Uncanny -- 3. The Pale Horse and Folk Horror -- 4. The Detective’s Psyche in Witness for the Prosecution and The ABC Murders -- Conclusion: Agnus Dei -- Bibliography -- Index
Summary: Agatha Christie’s work has been adapted extensively resulting in transformations that are both textual and cultural. While many adaptations are best known for being quaint murder mysteries, there are many adaptations of her work that draw on horror aesthetics. This book will look at how the growth of Agatha Christie adaptations have grown increasingly darker. Of key relevance to this study is the work of Sarah Phelps, whose Witness for the Prosecution, And Then There Were None, Ordeal by Innocence, The ABC Murders and The Pale Horse all are darker than their precedents. Born out of their contemporary screen contexts, they use entrenched literary and filmic codes of Gothic horror as central reference points for audiences. Drawing on adaptation scholarship, where adapters are interpreters as well as creators, this study will look at how Agatha Christie is closer to Gothic horror than what we realise.
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Frontmatter -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: Dark Moods and Deadly Puzzles -- 1. And Then There Were None and Fantastic Horror -- 2. Ordeal by Innocence and the Uncanny -- 3. The Pale Horse and Folk Horror -- 4. The Detective’s Psyche in Witness for the Prosecution and The ABC Murders -- Conclusion: Agnus Dei -- Bibliography -- Index

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Agatha Christie’s work has been adapted extensively resulting in transformations that are both textual and cultural. While many adaptations are best known for being quaint murder mysteries, there are many adaptations of her work that draw on horror aesthetics. This book will look at how the growth of Agatha Christie adaptations have grown increasingly darker. Of key relevance to this study is the work of Sarah Phelps, whose Witness for the Prosecution, And Then There Were None, Ordeal by Innocence, The ABC Murders and The Pale Horse all are darker than their precedents. Born out of their contemporary screen contexts, they use entrenched literary and filmic codes of Gothic horror as central reference points for audiences. Drawing on adaptation scholarship, where adapters are interpreters as well as creators, this study will look at how Agatha Christie is closer to Gothic horror than what we realise.

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In English.

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