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Revisiting Surveillance and Exposure through Aging Masculinities: Fede Álvarez’s "Don’t Breathe" as a Contemporary Adaptation of Edgar Allan Poe’s ‘The Tell-Tale Heart’ Miquel Baldellou, Marta Transtextuality Gaze House Aging Gender Fede Álvarez’s film Don’t Breathe (2016) and Poe’s classic tale ‘The Tell-Tale Heart’ (1843) present a significant number of intertextualities, which pave the way for approaching Álvarez’s film as a contemporary adaptation of Poe’s tale. Both narratives comprise pervasive references to the gaze and the act of looking, methods of invigilation and disclosure, the house as a projection of its dweller, and the relevance that age and gender discourses acquire in them. This article offers a comparative analysis of both narratives with the view to prove that Álvarez’s film reflects and subverts the dynamics of surveillance and exposure displayed in Poe’s original tale. 2026-03-30T18:29:53Z 2026-03-30T18:29:53Z 2026-03-30T18:29:53Z 2026-03-04 info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion https://hdl.handle.net/10459.1/469837 Reproducció del document publicat a http://dx.doi.org/10.17951/lsmll.2026.50.1.7-19 Lublin Studies in Modern Languages and Literature, 2026, vol. 50, núm. 1, p. 7-19 cc-by (c) Marta Miquel-Baldellou, 2026 Attribution 4.0 International info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Maria Curie-Sklodowska University Press