Literature, Film, and Their Hideous Progeny

Julie Grossman is Professor of English and Communication and Film Studies at Le Moyne College in Syracuse, New York, where she teaches courses in literature, film, and gender and cultural studies. She has published numerous scholarly articles on film, literature, art, and adaptation. Grossman is co-editor of A Due Voci: The Photography of Rita Hammond (2003), author of Rethinking the Femme Fatale in Film Noir: Ready for her Close-Up (2009, 2012), and her co-authored monograph (with Therese Grisham) on the directing work of Ida Lupino is forthcoming.

"In her provocative and energetic study, Julie Grossman employs the central metaphor of 'hideous progeny.' ... In every sense of the word, Grossman's is a 'vital' contribution to the field of adaptation studies. ... Like other excellent scholars in the field of adaptation studies, Grossman is creating a monster--and for those of us who teach and write about the process, this is thrilling stuff indeed." (Nancy M. West, South Atlantic Review (SAR), Vol. 81 (2), 2016)