The curse of Frankenstein
Authored book
| Book Title | The curse of Frankenstein | 
|---|---|
| Book Category | Authored book | 
| ERA Publisher ID | 1577 | 
| Authors | |
| Author | Harmes, Marcus K. | 
| Number of Pages | 102 | 
| Series | Devil's Advocates | 
| Year | 2015 | 
| Publisher | Columbia University | 
| Columbia University Press | |
| Place of Publication | Leighton Buzzard, United Kingdom | 
| ISBN | 9781906733858 | 
| 9780993071706 | |
| Web Address (URL) | http://auteur.co.uk/?product=the-curse-of-frankenstein-marcus-k-harmes | 
| Abstract | Critics abhorred it, audiences loved it, and Hammer executives where thrilled with the box office returns: 1957’s The Curse of Frankenstein was a big success and sent Hammer Films down a new and lucrative path. In his Devil’s Advocate, Marcus Harmes goes back to where the Hammer horror production started, looking at the film from a variety of perspectives: as a loose literary adaptation of Mary Shelley s novel; as a film that had, for legal reasons, to avoid adapting from James Whale's 1931 film for Universal Pictures; and as one which found immediate sources of inspiration in the Gainsborough bodice rippers of the 1940s and the poverty row horrors of the 1950s. | 
| Keywords | Hammer Film Productions; gothic cinema; adaptation theory; Frankenstein (character); Mary Shelley; Terence Fisher | 
| ANZSRC Field of Research 2020 | 470504. British and Irish literature | 
| 360501. Cinema studies | |
| 360505. Screen media | |
| Byline Affiliations | Open Access College | 
| Institution of Origin | University of Southern Queensland | 
https://research.usq.edu.au/item/q2zz2/the-curse-of-frankenstein
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