"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 ofFrankenstein adaptation and lore, this volume offers compelling new directions for scholarship surrounding the novel through dynamic critical and creative responses to Shelley's original"--
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.
Recenzijos
The Afterlives of Frankenstein condenses, consolidates, and extends the state of Frankenstein studies with critical acumen and aplomb. Lublin and Fay offer forward-thinking implications in this volume with enormous potential for scholars and enthusiasts of the novel alike. One might clearly envision this magnificent collection of essays as required reading in popular culture studies and mediatic legacies. * Robin Hammerman, Associate Professor, College of Arts and Letters, Michigan State University, USA *
Daugiau informacijos
Explores the contributions in both popular culture and artistic media that engage with, and intervene in, the evolution of the Frankenstein myth, illuminating ways that Mary Shelleys novel has deeply embedded itself in the cultural imagination.
Introduction
Robert 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 OConnell (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 Smiths 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, Shelleys 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 Gamess The
Wanderer: Frankensteins Creature (2019), Andrew Burkett (Union College,
USA)
Part 4: Artists Talk Back
12. A Monstrous Circus on Frankenstein: Mediating Shelleys Novel through
John Cages 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)
Robert Lublin is Professor of Theatre Arts at the University of Massachusetts Boston, USA. He is author of Costuming the Shakespearean Stage: Visual Codes of Representation in Early Modern Theatre and Culture (2016) and contributing co-editor of Reinventing the Renaissance: Shakespeare and His Contemporaries in Adaptation and Performance (2013). Among his published essays, he has co-authored two book chapters on Frankenstein.
Elizabeth A. Fay is Professor of English in the College of Liberal Arts at the University of Massachusetts Boston, USA. She has published six books on British Romantic literature, including Romantic Egypt: Abyssal Ground of British Romanticism (2021), Fashioning Faces: The Portraitive Mode in British Romanticism (2010), and Romantic Medievalism: History and the Romantic Literary Ideal (2001). Her articles and books include discussions of a range of Mary Shelleys works.
