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  • Agatha Christie and Gothic Horror: Adaptations and Televisuality

    Agatha Christie and Gothic Horror by Richards, Stuart;

    Adaptations and Televisuality

    Series: Horror and Gothic Media Cultures; 5;

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    Product details:

    • Edition number 1
    • Publisher Routledge
    • Date of Publication 15 April 2024

    • ISBN 9789463725781
    • Binding Hardback
    • No. of pages214 pages
    • Size 234x156 mm
    • Weight 560 g
    • Language English
    • 554

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    Short description:

    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.

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    Long description:

    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.

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    Table of Contents:

    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

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