Adapting Frankenstein

The monster's eternal lives in popular culture
Herausgeber: Cutchins, Dennis R.; Perry, Dennis R.

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Produktbeschreibung

This edited collection explores the afterlife of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein in theatre and film, radio, literature and graphics novels, making a substantial contribution to the field of adaptation studies.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Manchester University Press
• Seitenzahl: 360
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. August 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 24mm
• Gewicht: 705g
• ISBN-13: 9781526108906
• ISBN-10: 1526108909
• Artikelnr.: 51981580

Autorenporträt

Dennis R. Cutchins is Associate Professor of American Literature at Brigham Young University Dennis R. Perry is Associate Professor of American Literature at Brigham Young University

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction The Frankenstein Complex: when the text is more than a text -
Dennis 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 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 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:
from X-Men to steampunk 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 Afterword Frankenstein's pulse: an
afterword - Richard J. Hand Index