The Bedside, Bathtub & Armchair Companion to Frankenstein

by Adams, Carol J.; Buchanan, Douglas; Gesch, Kelly

• ISBN13: 9780826418241
• ISBN10: 0826418244
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2007-05-01
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic

Summary

A bolt-necked monster opens his eyes, lifts himself from his laboratory table, then lurches and stumbles toward his creator. Do we know this image because we are movie-watchers? When we imagine Frankenstein's monster, do we draw upon Mary Shelley's descri

Table of Contents

The Monster of Them All	p. 11
Capsule: Victor Frankenstein's Story, Part I	p. 15
I Am Galvanized: Frankenstein Science, Then and Now	p. 22
Sidebar: Dexter's Laboratory	p. 26
Sidebar: Charge It: When the Monster Gets Wired	p. 27
Ten Easy Steps for Setting up a Mad Scientist Laboratory & Creating Your Very Own Blasphemy	p. 28
Sidebar: The World "Monster"	p. 30
Sidebar: The Importance of Parents	p. 32
Fainting Spells: The Monster Onstage	p. 34
The Electrifying Monster: Film Takes to the Monster	p. 39
Suture Self: Boris Karloff, Not Bela Lugosi, Sews up a Big Role	p. 46
Sidebar: June 16	p. 50
Sidebar: Bolt Upright: The Monster Walks	p. 51
Does the Subtitle Explain It All? The Modern Prometheus	p. 54
Sidebar: Prometheus at the Movies: What's Worth Bringing (Back) to Life?	p. 58
Making a Monster the Van Helsing Way	p. 61
Sidebar: How to Make Your Own Frankenstein Monster	p. 63
Mary Shelley Tells a Birth Story: The Teenager Who Wrote Frankenstein	p. 64
Map: Mary Shelley, the Fecund Writer	p. 70
A Selection from Mary Shelley's Reading Lists, 1814-16	p. 72
Sidebar: Frankenstein in Common Parlance	p. 74
Excerpt: Victor Goes to the Mountains and Meets the Creature	p. 75
Sidebar: How Sublime!	p. 78
Capsule: An Orphan's Tale-The Monster's Story	p. 79
Frankenstein in the Funnies	p. 85
Sidebar: Dan Piraro: Why I Like Drawing Frankenstein's Monster	p. 87
Sit Down!: Frankenstein's Monster for Children	p. 88
Sidebar: The First Flower Child and the Change in the Message of the 1931 Frankenstein	p. 94
Why I'm a Vegetarian. An Exclusive Interview with the Monster	p. 97
Excerpt: Victor Describes How the Monster Demands a Mate	p. 100
Capsule: Victor Frankenstein's Story, Part II	p. 101
Map: Here There Be Monsters. A Map of Victor's Travels to Scotland and Back, until His Marriage	p. 106
Sidebar: It Wasn't Incest! Victor Frankenstein Defends His Marriage to His First Cousin	p. 108
A Good Cast Is Worth Repeating: Bride of Frankenstein	p. 110
Sidebar: I Was the Bride of Frankenstein. Elsa Lanchester	p. 113
Pyramid Themes: Frank in Egypt, Intentionally or Not (an Acrostic)	p. 115
Sidebar: The Creation of the Second Monster	p. 117
Frankenstein: The Musical?	p. 119
Sidebar: Rocky Horror Picture Show	p. 122
Song: Frankenstein's Valentine	p. 124
Capsule: "All at Sea": Walton's Story	p. 126
Polar Opposites: Does Victor Renounce Over-reaching and Will Walton?	p. 132
The Jabbermock: A Cautionary Tale on Messing in God's Domain without a Permission Slip, in the Style of Lewis Carroll	p. 134
Monsters on Ice	p. 135
Lurching Ever Onward: Charles Addams, Ted Cassidy, and the Monster	p. 137
The Monster Gets a First Name: Television Embraces the Comic Side of Horror	p. 139
Sidebar: Living with the Munsters in Waxahachie, Texas	p. 140
From Ice-olation to the Fireside Hearth and Back Again: The Story Takes Shape	p. 141
Sidebar: Safie's Independent Mother and Mary Wollstonecraft	p. 143
Simulacrum and Disfigurations	p. 146
Missing Persons Advertisements	p. 148
Puzzler: A Frankenstein Quiz	p. 150
13 Ways of Looking at Frankenstein (with apologies to Wallace Stevens)	p. 151
Sidebar: Of Gods, Monsters, and Homosexual Panic	p. 155
What to Do if You Meet a Monster: An Etiquette Guide	p. 158
The Son of the Bride in the House of the Ghost of Frankenstein: Successor Universal Movies after Whale	p. 160
Collectors: An Interview with Donald Glut	p. 162
Bill of Landing to Chick Young and Wilbur Grey	p. 165
Monsterbilia	p. 167
Sidebar: The Way of all (Pumpkin) Flesh	p. 169
How They Died	p. 170
Sidebar: Fire and Ice in the Frankenstein Story	p. 174
A Hammered-out Plot	p. 175
Puzzler: A Monstrous Crossword Puzzle	p. 178
Herr Frankenstein Is Greatly Changed	p. 180
Sidebar: The Role of Women in Monster Comics	p. 185
Sidebar: The Postmodern Prometheus	p. 185
The Animated Director	p. 187
Collectors: An Interview with Forrest J Ackerman	p. 190
All Stitched Up: The 1818 versus 1831 Editions: A Publishing History	p. 193
Frankenstein v. Bialystock	p. 197
A Frankenstein Film Test: Can You Identify Which Films Were Never Made?	p. 200
A Frank Success: The Frankenstein Stamp	p. 201
"You've Been Overexposed." A Memo from the Monster's Agent	p. 202
Putting the Monster Behind You	p. 204
Acknowledgments	p. 207
Answers to a Frankenstein Film Test and the Crossword Puzzle	p. 208
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