Adapting Frankenstein

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

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Produktbeschreibung

Mary Shelley's Frankenstein is one of the most popular works in the history of western literature. It has been adapted and re-assembled in countless forms, from Hammer Horror films to young-adult books and bandes dessinées. This collection provides a series of creative readings exploring the elaborate intertextual networks that make up the novel's remarkable afterlife. Other classic texts produce adaptations from time to time, but Frankenstein has reached critical mass, with new versions appearing continually. This potentially infinite grid of intertexts, here termed the 'Frankenstein Network', enables a new way of reading adaptations in the light of other texts on the grid. The adaptation-studies approaches found in this book focus on the complex relationships between the various texts, disparate traditions, and dynamic media in which Frankenstein has been adapted. As the most comprehensive collection of essays to date on why and how Frankenstein has been adapted, this is an ideal book for class explorations of adaptation theory, Frankenstein studies, Gothic horror, and Dark Romanticism. 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.

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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