The curse of Frankenstein
Authored book
Book Title | The curse of Frankenstein |
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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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