Edisons Frankenstein

Author : Frederick C. Wiebel
Publisher : Bearmanor Media
ISBN 13 : 9781593935153
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.53/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Edison's Frankenstein written by Frederick C. Wiebel and published by Bearmanor Media. This book was released on 2009-12 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE COMPLETE TORTUROUS STORY of the 1910 film version of Frankenstein is narrated in this 100th Anniversary edition. Everything you ever wanted to know about the classic first Frankenstein film and then some. This highly researched document begins in the dusty archives of Thomas A. Edison and follows a trail of evidence that leads through the tattered pages of pre- Hollywood film history. The story unfolds of the making of the film and its disappearance on to the actual re-discovery of the long-lost 1910 Frankenstein film starring Charles Ogle, Augustus Phillips, and Mary Fuller, and finally getting it released on DVD. Helped step-by-step with obscure Edison Manufacturing Co. documents and numerous rare photographs, many published for the very first time, this motion picture, its unknown impact on later Frankenstein films and intertextuality are finally revealed and brought back to life. Created in a style that appeals to all audiences, author Wiebel brings forth a living book from dead tissues. Edison's Frankenstein stands on its own in the world of horror filmography and is a welcome edition to any library. "Of the over 400 books on Frankenstein that I have in my library, this is the gem of my collection and the one I've been waiting for." - Forrest J. Ackerman

Author : Harold Bloom
Publisher : Infobase Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0791093581
Total Pages : 151 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mary Shelley's Frankenstein written by Harold Bloom and published by Infobase Publishing. This book was released on 2007 with total page 151 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents a collection of essays exploring various aspects of the novel "Frankenstein" by Mary Shelley.

Author : Frederick C. Wiebel
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781929515271
Total Pages : 62 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Edison's Frankenstein 1910 written by Frederick C. Wiebel and published by . This book was released on 2003-10 with total page 62 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A faithful adaptation of America's very first horror movie, filmed by Thomas Edison in 1910, this book contains a 40 page lead, painstakingly adapted from the original movie by Chris Yambar and lovingly rendered by Robb Bihun. along with backstory and supplimental notes by noted film historian, Fred Weibel. A must for all horror afficionados, film history buffs and comic fans.

Author : Elizabeth Young
Publisher : NYU Press
ISBN 13 : 0814745377
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.73/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Black Frankenstein written by Elizabeth Young and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2008-08-10 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For all the scholarship devoted to Mary Shelley's English novel Frankenstein, there has been surprisingly little attention paid to its role in American culture, and virtually none to its racial resonances in the United States. In Black Frankenstein, Elizabeth Young identifies and interprets the figure of a black American Frankenstein monster as it appears with surprising frequency throughout nineteenth- and twentieth-century U.S. culture, in fiction, film, essays, oratory, painting, and other media, and in works by both whites and African Americans. Black Frankenstein stories, Young argues, effect four kinds of racial critique: they humanize the slave; they explain, if not justify, black violence; they condemn the slaveowner; and they expose the instability of white power. The black Frankenstein's monster has served as a powerful metaphor for reinforcing racial hierarchy—and as an even more powerful metaphor for shaping anti-racist critique. Illuminating the power of parody and reappropriation, Black Frankenstein tells the story of a metaphor that continues to matter to literature, culture, aesthetics, and politics.

Author : Susan Tyler Hitchcock
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 9780393061444
Total Pages : 412 pages
Book Rating : 4.42/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Frankenstein written by Susan Tyler Hitchcock and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2007-10-30 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This lively history of the Frankenstein myth, illuminated by dozens of pictures and illustrations, is told with skill and humor. Hitchcock uses film, literature, history, science, and even punk music to help readers understand the meaning of this monster made by man.

Author : Sidney Perkowitz
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1681776979
Total Pages : 337 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Frankenstein written by Sidney Perkowitz and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2018-01-02 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The tale of a tormented creature created in a laboratory began on a rainy night in 1816 in the imagination of a nineteen-year-old Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley. Since its publication two years later, Frankenstein: Or, the Modern Prometheus has spread around the globe through every possible medium and variation. Frankenstein has not been out of print once in 200 years. “Frankenstein” has become an indelible part of popular culture, and is shorthand for anything bizarre and human-made; for instance, genetically modified crops are “Frankenfood.”Conversely, Frankenstein’s monster has also become a benign Halloween favorite. Yet for all its long history, Frankenstein's central premise—that science, not magic or God, can create a living being, and thus these creators must answer for their actions as humans, not Gods—is most relevant today as scientists approach creating synthetic life.In its popular and cultural weight and its expression of the ethical issues raised by the advance of science, physicist Sidney Perkowitz and film expert Eddy von Muller have brought together scholars and scientists, artists and directions—including Mel Brooks—to celebrate and examine Mary Shelley’s marvelous creation and its legacy as the monster moves into his next century.

Author : Frederick C. Wiebel, Jr.
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781890313098
Total Pages : 144 pages
Book Rating : 4.92/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Edison's Frankenstein written by Frederick C. Wiebel, Jr. and published by . This book was released on 2000-01-01 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the greatest mysteries in cinema history has finally been solved in Edison's Frankenstein. Painstakingly researched in the dusty archives of museums and libraries from original Edison Studio documents and publicity, Frederick C. Wiebel, Jr. weaves an engrossing tale that sheds light on the production of the most sought after horror movie ever produced. Not only was lost and scattered information collected together but the only surviving prise of the 1910 film was uncovered. Loaded with plenty of photographs and a surprising comparison to the Universal Frankenstein pictures that followed, this book is a highly entertaining document that fills a much needed niche.

Author : Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674055527
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.20/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Annotated Frankenstein written by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2012-10-31 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A monster assembled by a scientist from parts of dead bodies develops a mind of his own as he learns to loathe himself and hate his creator, in an annotated edition that offers insights into Shelley's literary and social worlds.

Author : Shane Denson
Publisher : transcript Verlag
ISBN 13 : 3839428173
Total Pages : 433 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Postnaturalism written by Shane Denson and published by transcript Verlag. This book was released on 2014-07-31 with total page 433 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: »Postnaturalism« offers an original account of human-technological co-evolution and argues that film and media theory, in particular, needs to be re-evaluated from the perspective of our material interfaces with a constantly changing environment. Extrapolating from Frankenstein films and the resonances they establish between a hybrid monster and the spectator hooked into the machinery of the cinema, Shane Denson engages debates in science studies and philosophy of technology to rethink histories of cinema, media, technology, and ultimately of the affective channels of our own embodiment. With a foreword by media theorist Mark B. N. Hansen.

Author : Ron Backer
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476620210
Total Pages : 372 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Classic Horror Films and the Literature That Inspired Them written by Ron Backer and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2015-05-11 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Classic horror films such as Dracula, Frankenstein and The Picture of Dorian Gray are based on famous novels. Less well known—even to avid horror fans—are the many other memorable films based on literary works. Beginning in the silent era and continuing to the present, numerous horror films found their inspiration in novels, novellas, short stories and poems, though many of these written works are long forgotten. This book examines 43 works of literature—from the famous to the obscure—that provided the basis for 62 horror films. Both the written works and the films are analyzed critically, with an emphasis on the symbiosis between the two. Background on the authors and their writings is provided.