Adapting Frankenstein The monster's eternal lives in popular culture [Hardcover]

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 dessin?es. 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.
Introduction
The Frankenstein Complex: when the text is more than a text - Dennis Cutchins and Dennis R. Perry
Part I: Dramatic adaptations of Frankenstein on stage and radio
1 Frankenstein's spectacular nineteenth-century stage history and legacy - Lissette Lopez Szwydky
2 A Frankensteinian model for adaptation studies, or 'It Lives!': adaptive symbiosis and Peake's Presumption, or the fate of Frankenstein - Glenn Jellenik
3 The gothic imagination in American sound recordings of Frankenstein - Laurence Raw
Part II: Cinematic and television adaptations of Frankenstein
4 A paranoid parable of adaptation: Forbidden Planet, Frankenstein, and the atomic age - Dennis R. Perry
5 The Curse of Frankenstein: Hammer film studios' reinvention of horror cinema - Morgan C. O'Brien
6 The Frankenstein Complex on the small screen: Mary Shelley's motivic novel as adjacent adaptation - Kyle Bishop
7 The new ethics of Frankenstein: responsibility and obedience in I, Robot and X-Men: First Class - Matt Lorenz
8 Hammer films and the perfection of the Frankenstein project - Maria K. Bachman and Paul Peterson
Part III: Literary adaptations of Frankenstein
9 'Plainly stitched together': Frankenstein, neo-Victorian fiction, and the palimpsestuous literary past - Jamie Horrocks
10 Frankensteinian re-articulations in Scotland: monl“!