Dennis Cutchins - Adapting Frankenstein: The Monsters Eternal Lives in Popular Culture

ADAPTING FRANKENSTEIN

ADAPTING FRANKENSTEIN

The monsters eternal lives in popular culture

Edited by Dennis R. Cutchins and Dennis R. Perry

Manchester University Press

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Portions of chapter 10 originally appeared in Carol Davisons Monstrous Regiments of Women and Brides of Frankenstein, The Female Gothic, published 2009. It is reproduced here with permission of Palgrave Macmillan.

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1 Frankensteins spectacular nineteenth-century stage history and legacy

5 The Curse of Frankenstein: Hammer Film Studios reinvention of horror cinema

Maria K. Bachman is Chair and Professor of English at Middle Tennessee State University and co-editor of the Victorians Institute Journal. Her books include Fear, Loathing, and Victorian Xenophobia, co-edited with Marlene Tromp and Heidi Kaufman (The Ohio State University Press, 2013) and Realitys Dark Light: The Sensational Wilkie Collins, co-edited with Don Richard Cox (University of Tennessee Press, 2003). She has published scholarly editions of Wilkie Collinss The Woman in White and Blind Love (Broadview Press, 2006, 2004), and Wilkie Collinss The Dead Hand and Charles Dickenss The Brides Chamber (University of Tampa Press, 2009). She has also published numerous critical articles and book chapters on Samuel Richardson, Benjamin Disraeli, Edward Bulwer-Lytton, Charles Dickens, and Wilkie Collins.

Tully Barnett is a Research Fellow in the School of Humanities and Creative Arts at Flinders University in South Australia. She has published on new reading practices such as Kindle social highlighting and app-based reading platforms, posthumanism in new media art, and reading pedagogies in the tertiary literary studies classroom. She also researches in the field of cultural value as part of an Australian Research Council-funded project, Laboratory Adelaide: The Value of Culture.

Kyle William Bishop directs the Honors Program at Southern Utah University, where he teaches courses in film and screen studies. He has published articles on a variety of popular culture subjects, including Night of the Living Dead, Fight Club, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, The Birds, and The Walking Dead. He has published two monographs on zombies: American Zombie Gothic (2010) and How Zombies Conquered Popular Culture (2015), both available from McFarland.

Vronique Bragard is Associate Professor in Comparative Literature at the Universit catholique de Louvain (Belgium). She is the author of Transoceanic Dialogues (Peter Lang, 2008) and editor with Srilata Ravi of Ecritures mauriciennes au fminin: penser laltrit (LHarmattan, 2011) and with Christophe Dony and Warren Rosenberg of Portraying 9/11: Essays on Representations in Comics, Literature, Film and Theatre (McFarland, 2011). Her recent publications include treatments of the representation of the Belgian colonial past in comics.

Dennis R. Cutchins is an Associate Professor of English at Brigham Young University, where he regularly teaches courses in adaptation and American literature. In 2000 he won the Carl Bode Award for the best article published in the Journal of American Culture for an essay on Leslie Silkos Ceremony, and in 2004 received the Charles Redd Centers Mollie and Karl Butler Young Scholar Award in Western Studies. He is currently working on a handbook to adaptation studies, and beginning work on ways to apply big data theories to adaptation studies.

Joe Darowski received a PhD in American Studies from Michigan State University. He taught in the English Department a Brigham Young University-Idaho and is a member of the editorial review board of the Journal of Popular Culture. He is the author of X-Men and the Mutant Metaphor: Race and Gender in the Comic Books (2014), and editor of multiple books including The Ages of Superman (2012), The Ages of Wonder Woman (2014), The Ages of the Avengers (2014), The Ages of Iron Man (2015), and The Ages of the Justice League: Essays on Americas Greatest Superheroes in Changing Times (2017).

Carol Margaret Davison is Professor and Head of the Department of English Language, Literature, and Creative Writing at the University of Windsor. She has published widely on the Gothic, cultural teratology, African-American literature, and Scottish literature. Her published books include History of the Gothic: Gothic Literature 17641824 (2009), Anti-Semitism and British Gothic Literature (2004), and The Gothic and Death (2016). She also co-edited Scottish Gothic: An Edinburgh Companion (2018) with Monica German.

Richard J. Hand is Professor of Media Practice at the University of East Anglia, UK. He is the founding co-editor of the international peer-reviewed Journal of Adaptation in Film and Performance and his interests include adaptation, translation and interdisciplinarity in performance media (with a particular interest in historical forms of popular culture, especially horror) using critical and practical research methodologies. He is the co-author of two books on Grand-Guignol horror theatre (Exeter University Press, 2002 and 2007), three books on radio drama (McFarland, 2006; Continuum, 2011; and Manchester University Press, 2014), two books on Joseph Conrad (Palgrave, 2005 and Rodopi, 2009), a book on Graham Greene (Palgrave, 2015), and has published translations of plays by Victor Hugo (Methuen, 2004) and Octave Mirbeau (Intellect, 2012). He has co-edited academic volumes on Conrad (2009), Horror Film (2007) and Radio (2012). As a practitioner he has written and directed radio and stage plays in the UK and US.

Jamie Horrocks is Associate Professor of English at Brigham Young University in Provo, UT, where she teaches courses on Victorian literature and culture and gender studies. Her research interests centre on Victorian aesthetics and the intersection of literature and art, especially in the later nineteenth century. She has published on Oscar Wilde, Vernon Lee, Virginia Woolf, the Aesthetic Movement, and Victorian periodical illustration.