The afterlives of Frankenstein : popular and artistic adaptations and reimaginings / edited by Robert I. Lublin and Elizabeth A. Fay.
| Other author | Lublin, Robert I., editor. |
| Other author | Fay, Elizabeth A., 1957- editor. |
| Format | Book |
| Publication | London ; New York : Bloomsbury Academic, 2024. |
| Description | x, 234 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 24 cm |
| Subjects |
| Physical medium | illustration |
| Physical medium | polychrome |
| Contents | Introduction / Robert I. Lublin and Elizabeth A. Fay -- Part one. Cultural Reinventions. "Only from the future" : Frankenstein, The Mummy!, and the Ontology of Revolution / David Baulch -- Frankens-Time : Frankenstein and the Temporality of Artificial Life / Tobias Wilson-Bates -- Meiji Japan Responds to Frankenstein : The 1889-90 Translation "The New Creator" and the Illustrations / Tomoko Nakagawa -- Frankenstein Goes Global : Returning the Necropolitical Gaze with Frankenstein in Baghdad / Hugh Charles O'Connell -- Part two. Frankensteinia. Frankenstein in the Popular Imagination / Sidney E. Berger -- Frankenstein Masks : Perpetuating the Monster Assemblage / Taylor Hagood -- "Machines within the machine" : Definitions of Humanity in Victor LaValle and Dietrich Smith's Destroyer (2017) / W. Andrew Shepherd -- Part three. Playing Frankenstein. Mary Enters : Staging Shelley in Contemporary Frankenstein Biodramas / Brittany Reid -- The Frankenstein Myth in Twenty-First-Century Film / Robert I. Lublin -- The Water and the Corpse : Exploring Nature, Shelley's Echoes, and Twenty-First Century Cultural Anxieties in The Frankenstein Chronicles / Lorna Piatti-Farnell -- The Aesthetics of Digital Naturecultures in La Belle Games's The Wanderer : Frankenstein's Creature (2019) / Andrew Burkett -- Part four. Artists Talk Back. A Monstrous Circus on Frankenstein : Mediating Shelley's Novel through John Cage's Multimedia Strategies / R. L. Silver and Miriam Wallace -- Frankenstein in Three Chords / Elizabeth A. Fay and James McGirr -- From Frankenstein to Writing Sci-Fi to Collage / Margaret Hart - Coda. Frankenstein Continued / Daniel Cook. |
| Abstract | "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"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Issued in other form | Online version: Afterlives of Frankenstein London ; New York : Bloomsbury Academic, 2024 9781350351578 |
| Genre/form | Adaptations |
| LCCN | 2023030747 |
| ISBN | 9781350351561 (hardback) |
| ISBN | 1350351563 |
| ISBN | (adobe pdf) |
| ISBN | (epub) |
| Standard identifier# | 60002529227 |
Availability
| Library | Location | Call Number | Status | Item Actions |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Joyner | New Books | PR5397.F73 A335 2024 | ✔ Available | Want This? |