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. -- . 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.

• | Author: Dennis R. Cutchins, Dennis R. Perry
• | Publisher: Manchester University Press
• | Publication Date: Aug 06, 2018
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• | Binding: Paperback / softback
• | ISBN-13: 9781526108913
• | ISBN-10: 1526108917