The Afterlives of Frankenstein (eBook, PDF)

Popular and Artistic Adaptations and Reimaginings
Redaktion: Lublin, Robert I.; Fay, Elizabeth A.

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

An exploration of the treatment of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein in popular art and culture, this book examines adaptations in film, comics, theatre, art, video-games and more, to illuminate how the novel's myth has evolved in the two centuries since its publication. Divided into four sections, The Afterlives of Frankenstein considers the cultural dialogues Mary Shelley's novel has engaged with in specific historical moments; the extraordinary examples of how Frankenstein has suffused our cultural consciousness; and how the Frankenstein myth has become something to play with, a locus for reinvention and imaginative interpretation. In the final part, artists respond to the Frankenstein legacy today, reintroducing it into cultural circulation in ways that speak creatively to current anxieties and concerns.

Bringing together popular interventions that riff off Shelley's major themes, chapters survey such works as Frankenstein in Baghdad, Bob Dylan's recent "My Own Version of You", the graphic novel series Destroyer with its Black cast of characters, Jane Louden's The Mummy!, the first Japanese translation of Frankenstein, "The New Creator", the iconic Frankenstein mask and Kenneth Brannagh's Mary Shelley's Frankenstein film. A deep-dive into the crevasses of Frankenstein adaptation and lore, this volume offers compelling new directions for scholarship surrounding the novel through dynamic critical and creative responses to Shelley's original.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury UK eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 248
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. Februar 2024
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781350351578
• Artikelnr.: 69537275

Autorenporträt

Robert Lublin is Professor of Theatre Arts at the University of Massachusetts Boston, USA. He is author of Costuming the Shakespearean Stage: Visual Codes of Representation in Early Modern Theatre and Culture (2016) and contributing co-editor of Reinventing the Renaissance: Shakespeare and His Contemporaries in Adaptation and Performance (2013). Among his published essays, he has co-authored two book chapters on Frankenstein. Elizabeth A. Fay is Professor of English in the College of Liberal Arts at the University of Massachusetts Boston, USA. She has published six books on British Romantic literature, including Romantic Egypt: Abyssal Ground of British Romanticism (2021), Fashioning Faces: The Portraitive Mode in British Romanticism (2010), and Romantic Medievalism: History and the Romantic Literary Ideal (2001). Her articles and books include discussions of a range of Mary Shelley's works.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction Robert I. Lublin and Elizabeth A. Fay Part 1: Cultural Reinventions 1. "Only from the future": Frankenstein
The Mummy!
and the Ontology of Revolution
David Baulch (University of West Florida
USA) 2. Frankens-Time: Frankenstein and the Temporal Origins of Artificial Intelligence
Tobias Wilson-Bates (Georgia Gwinnett College) 3. Meiji Japan Responds to Frankenstein: The 1889-90 translation "The New Creator"
Tomoko Nakagawa (University of the Sacred Heart
Japan) 4. Frankenstein Goes Global: Returning the Necropolitical Gaze with Frankenstein in Baghdad
Hugh Charles O'Connell (University of Massachusetts Boston
USA) Part 2: Frankensteinia 5. Frankenstein in the Popular Imagination
Sidney E. Berger (Simmons College
USA) 6. Frankenstein Mask: Perpetuating the Monster Assemblage
Taylor Hagood (Florida Atlantic University
USA) 7. Victor LaValle and Dietrich Smith's Graphic Novel Destroyer (2020)
Andrew Shepherd (University of Utah
USA) Part 3: Playing Frankenstein 8. Staging Mary Shelley in Contemporary Frankenstein Biodramas
Brittany Reid (Brock University
Canada) 9. The Evolving Myth of Frankenstein in Twenty-First-Century Film
Robert I. Lublin (University of Massachusetts Boston
USA) 10. The Water and the Corpse: Exploring Nature
Shelley's Echoes
and Twenty-First Century Cultural Anxieties in The Frankenstein Chronicles
Lorna Piatti-Farnell (Auckland University of Technology
New Zealand) 11. The Aesthetics of Digital Naturecultures in La Belle Games's The Wanderer: Frankenstein's Creature (2019)
Andrew Burkett (Union College
USA) Part 4: Artists Talk Back 12. A Monstrous Circus on Frankenstein: Mediating Shelley's Novel through John Cage's Multimedia Strategies
Miriam Wallace and R. L. Silver (New College of Florida
USA) 13. Frankenstein in Three Chords
Elizabeth A. Fay (University of Massachusetts Boston
USA) and James McGirr (Independent Scholar
USA) 14. From Frankenstein to Writing SciFi to Collage
Kate Hart (University of Massachusetts Boston
USA)