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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.
List of contents
IntroductionThe 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 radio1
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 Frankenstein4 A paranoid parable of adaptation:
Forbidden Planet, Frankenstein, and the atomic age - Dennis R. Perry
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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 Frankenstein9 '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 comics14 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 Frankenstein17 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
Index
About the author
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
Summary
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. -- .
