Agatha Christie and Gothic Horror

Adaptations and Televisuality

Stuart Richards (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

214 Seiten

2025
Routledge (Verlag)
978-1-041-17537-7 (ISBN)

Artikel merken

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. • Analysis of Agatha Christie adaptations and the horror genre. • First major monograph to explore Sarah Phelps work on Agatha Christie. • Explores the transcultural adaptations of Agatha Christie.

Stuart is a senior lecturer in Screen Studies at the University of South Australia. His first monograph, The Queer Film Festival: Popcorn and Politics, is published as part of Palgrave Macmillan’s ‘Framing Film Festivals’ series, which looks at the queer film festival as a social enterprise and its growth in the creative industries. His research has been published in journals, such as Senses of Cinema, New Review of Film and Television, Media International Australia and Studies in Australasian Cinema. He is an associate director of the Creative People, Products and Places (CP3) Research Centre.

Introduction: Dark Moods and Deadly Puzzles, Chapter 1: And Then There Were None and Fantastic Horror, Chapter 2: Ordeal by Innocence and The Uncanny, Chapter 3: The Pale Horse and Folk Horror, Chapter 4: The Detective's Psyche in Witness for the Prosecution and The ABC Murders, Conclusion: Agnus Dei

Erscheinungsdatum	19.11.2025
Reihe/Serie	Horror and Gothic Media Cultures
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Gewicht	400 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Medienwissenschaft
ISBN-10	1-041-17537-X / 104117537X
ISBN-13	978-1-041-17537-7 / 9781041175377
Zustand	Neuware