Adapting Frankenstein : the monster's eternal lives in popular culture

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. Front matter Dedication Contents List of illustrations Notes on contributors Introduction: The Frankenstein Complex: when the text is more than a text Part I: Dramatic adaptations of Frankensteinon stage and radio Frankenstein’s spectacular nineteenth-century stage history and legacy A Frankensteinian model for adaptation studies, or ‘It lives!’: adaptive symbiosis and Peake’s Presumption, or the fate of Frankenstein The Gothic imagination in American sound recordings of Frankenstein Part II: Cinematic and television adaptations of Frankenstein A paranoid parable of adaptation: Forbidden Planet, Frankenstein, and the atomic age The Curse of Frankenstein: Hammer Film Studios’ reinvention of horror cinema The Frankenstein Complex on the small screen: Mary Shelley’s motivic novel as adjacent adaptation The new ethics of Frankenstein: responsibility and obedience in I, Robot and X-Men: First Class Hammer Films and the perfection of the Frankenstein project Part III: Literary adaptations of Frankenstein ‘Plainly stitched together’: Frankenstein, neo-Victorian fiction, and the palimpsestuous literary past Frankensteinian re-articulations in Scotland: monstrous marriage, maternity, and the politics of embodiment Young Frankensteins: graphic children’s texts and the twenty-first-century monster In his image: the mad scientist remade in the young adult novel The soul of the matter: Frankenstein meets H.P. Lovecraft’s ‘Herbert West – Reanimator’ Part IV: Frankenstein in art, illustrations, and comics Illustration, adaptation, and the development of Frankenstein’s visual lexicon ‘The X-Men meet Frankenstein! “Nuff Said”’: adapting Mary Shelley’s monster in superhero comic books Expressionism, deformity, and abject texture in bande dessinée appropriations of Frankenstein Part V: New media adaptations of Frankenstein Assembling the body/text: Frankenstein in new media Adaptations of ‘liveness’ in theatrical representations of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein Frankenstein’s pulse: an afterword Index '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 dessin�ees . 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' --Back cover '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' --Back cover 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.