The undergrounds of The phantom of the opera : sublimation and the Gothic in Leroux's novel and its progeny / Jerrold E. Hogle.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hogle, Jerrold E.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Leroux, Gaston, 1868-1927. 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).

Leroux, Gaston, 1868-1927--Film and video adaptations.

Leroux, Gaston, 1868-1927--Stage history.

Local Subjects:

Leroux, Gaston, 1868-1927--Film and video adaptations.

Leroux, Gaston, 1868-1927--Stage history.

Physical Description:

xiii, 262 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Palgrave, 2002.

Contents:

Part 1 The Novel: Leroux's Distinctive Choices and Their Wider Contexts

1 The Original Fantome's Mysteries: An Introduction 3

2 The Psychoanalytic Veneer in the Novel: Le Fantome's "Unconscious Depths" and their Social Foundations 41

3 Leroux's Sublimations of Cultural Politics: From Degeneration and the Suppression of Carnival to the Abjection of Mixed "Otherness" 67

4 The Ghost of the Counterfeit: Leroux's Fantome and the Cultural Work of the Gothic 103

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 135

6 The 1943 Remake: Recombining Film Styles, Struggling with Psychoanalysis, and Sanitizing World War II 153

7 The Culture of Adolescence: The Lloyd Webber Musical and the Adaptations that Paved the Way, 1962-1986 173

8 Different Phantoms for Different Problems: Some Adaptations Since the Musical 205

9 The Phantom's Lasting Significance: An Assessment of Its Cultural Functions 233.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [245]-254) and index.

ISBN:

0312293461

OCLC:

47922883