The Afterlives of Frankenstein: Popular and Artistic Adaptations and Reimaginings
Robert I. Lublin (Anthology Editor) , Elizabeth A. Fay (Anthology Editor)
Publisher site: https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/afterlives-of-frankenstein-9781350351561/.
Product details
Published Feb 22 2024Format Hardback
Edition 1st
Extent 248
ISBN 9781350351561
Imprint Bloomsbury Academic
Illustrations Colour images
Dimensions 9 x 6 inches
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing
Description
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.
Table of Contents
IntroductionRobert 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)
