The undergrounds of The phantom of the opera : sublimation and the Gothic in Leroux's novel and its progeny /
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| Author / Creator: | Hogle, Jerrold E. |
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| Edition: | 1st ed. |
| Imprint: | New York : Palgrave, 2002. |
| Description: | xiii, 262 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| Language: | English |
| Subject: | Leroux, Gaston, -- 1868-1927. -- Fantôme de l'Opéra. Phantom of the Opera (Motion picture : 1925) Phantom of the Opera (Motion picture : 1943) Phantom of the Opera (Musical) Fantôme de l'Opéra (Leroux, Gaston) Phantom of the Opera (Motion picture : 1925) Phantom of the Opera (Motion picture : 1943) Phantom of the Opera (Musical) |
| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/4673682 |
Table of Contents:
- List of Illustrations
- Preface
- A Note on Translations
- Part 1. The Novel: Leroux's Distinctive Choices and Their Wider Contexts
- 1. The Original Fantome's Mysteries: An Introduction
- 2. The Psychoanalytic Veneer in the Novel: Le Fantome's "Unconscious Depths" and their Social Foundations
- 3. Leroux's Sublimations of Cultural Politics: From Degeneration and the Suppression of Carnival to the Abjection of Mixed "Otherness"
- 4. The Ghost of the Counterfeit: Leroux's Fantome and the Cultural Work of the Gothic
- Part 2. The Major Adaptations: Neo-Gothic Sublimations of Changing Cultural Fears
- 5. Universal's Silent Film: The Recast Scapegoat, the Quest for the Widest Audience, and the Management of Labor
- 6. The 1943 Remake: Recombining Film Styles, Struggling with Psychoanalysis, and Sanitizing World War II
- 7. The Culture of Adolescence: The Lloyd Webber Musical and the Adaptations that Paved the Way, 1962-1986
- 8. Different Phantoms for Different Problems: Some Adaptations Since the Musical
- 9. The Phantom's Lasting Significance: An Assessment of Its Cultural Functions
- Notes
- Works Cited
- Index
