Research Catalog

Title

Adapting Frankenstein : the monster's eternal lives in popular culture / edited by Dennis R. Cutchins and Dennis R. Perry.

Publication

• [Manchester] : Manchester University Press, 2018.
• ©2018

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Details

Additional Authors

• Cutchins, Dennis R. (Dennis Ray), 1963-
• Perry, Dennis R.

Description

xvi, 343 pages : illustrations; 24 cm

Summary

Mary Shelley's Frankenstein is one of the most popular novels in western literature. It has been adapted and re-assembled in countless forms, from Hammer Horror films to young-adult books and bandes dessinées. Beginning with the idea of the 'Frankenstein Complex', this edited collection provides a series of creative readings that explore the elaborate intertextual networks that make up the novel's remarkable afterlife. It broadens the scope of research on Frankenstein while deepening our understanding of a text that, 200 years after its original publication, continues to intrigue and terrify us in new and unexpected ways.

Subject

• Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft, 1797-1851
• Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft, 1797-1851. > Adaptations
• Frankenstein's Monster (Fictitious character)
• Frankenstein (Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft)
• Film adaptations > History and criticism
• Television adaptations > History and criticism
• Radio adaptations > History and criticism
• Stage adaptations > History and criticism
• Frankenstein films

Genre/Form

• Adaptations.
• Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Introduction: The Frankenstein Complex: when the text is more than a text / Dennis R. Cutchins and Dennis R. Perry -- Part I: Dramatic adaptations of Frankenstein on stage and radio -- 1. Frankenstein's spectacular nineteenth-century stage history and legacy / Lissette Lopez Szwydky -- 2. A Frankensteinian model for adaptation studies, or 'It lives!': adaptive symbiosis and Peake's Presumption, or the fate of Frankenstein / Glenn Jellenik -- 3. The gothic imagination in American sound recordings of Frankenstein / Laurence Raw -- Part II: Cinematic and television adaptations of Frankenstein -- 4. A paranoid parable of adaptation: Forbidden Planet, Frankenstein, and the atomic age / Dennis R. Perry -- 5. The Curse of Frankenstein: Hammer film studios' reinvention of horror cinema / Morgan C. O'Brien -- 6. The Frankenstein Complex on the small screen: Mary Shelley's motivic novel as adjacent adaptation / Kyle Bishop -- 7. The new ethics of Frankenstein: responsibility and obedience in I, Robot and X-Men: First Class / Matt Lorenz -- 8. Hammer films and the perfection of the Frankenstein project / Maria K. Bachman and Paul C. Peterson -- Part III: Literary adaptations of Frankenstein -- 9. 'Plainly stitched together': Frankenstein, neo-Victorian fiction, and the palimpsestuous literary past / Jamie Horrocks -- 10. Frankensteinian re-articulations in Scotland: monstrous marriage, maternity, and the politics of embodiment / Carol Margaret Davison -- 11. Young Frankensteins: graphic children's texts and the twenty-first-century monster / Jessica Straley -- 12. In his image: the mad scientist remade in the young adult novel / Farran L. Norris Sands -- 13. The soul of the matter: Frankenstein meets H. P. Lovecraft's 'Herbert West-Reanimator' / Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock -- Part IV: Frankenstein in art, illustrations, and comics -- 14. Illustration, adaptation, and the development of Frankenstein's visual lexicon / Kate Newell -- 15. The X-Men meet Frankenstein! "Nuff Said"': adapting Mary Shelley's monster in superhero comic books / Joe Darowski -- 16. Expressionism, deformity, and abject texture in bande dessinée appropriations of Frankenstein / Véronique Bragard and Catherine Thewissen -- Part V: New media adaptations of Frankenstein -- 17. Assembling the body/text: Frankenstein in new media / Tully Barnett and Ben Kooyman -- 18. Adaptations of 'liveness' in theatrical representations of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein / Kelly Jones -- Frankenstein's pulse: an afterword / Richard J. Hand.

Call Number

JFE 19-93

ISBN

• 9781526108913
• 1526108917
• 9781526108906
• 1526108909

OCLC

1054234433

Title

Adapting Frankenstein : the monster's eternal lives in popular culture / edited by Dennis R. Cutchins and Dennis R. Perry.

Publisher

[Manchester] : Manchester University Press, 2018.

Copyright Date

©2018

Type of Content

text

still image

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Added Author

Cutchins, Dennis R. (Dennis Ray), 1963- editor. Editor

Perry, Dennis R., editor. Editor

Other Form:

ebook version : 9781526108937

Research Call Number

JFE 19-93