Foreword by Noël Carroll Introduction by Caroline Joan S. Picart A Note on the Entries An Alphabetical Listing of Frankenstein Films Appendix One: General Texts on Frankenstein Films Appendix Two: "Body Parts" Films Appendix Three: "Re-Animation" Films
A compilation of primary and secondary information on the numerous and multifarious film incarnations of the Frankenstein narrative, ranging across horror, comedy, science fiction, pornography, and animation.
CAROLINE JOAN ("KAY") S. PICART is an Assistant Professor of Humanities and English at Florida State University. She is the author of Resentment and "the Feminine" in Nietzsche's Politico-Aesthetics. Thomas Mann and Friedrich Nietzsche: Eroticism, Death, Music, and Laughter, The Cinematic Rebirths of Frankenstein (Greenwood, forthcoming). FRANK SMOOT works as an exhibit researcher and director of publications at the Chippewa Valley Museum, a regional history museum in Eau Claire, Wisconsin. He has done text layout and copy editing for numerous books.
Scholarly in tone and a good purchase for academic libraries,
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[O]ffers perhaps the most thorough and expansive resource for film
scholars and horror movie fans intersted in cinematic
representations of the Frankenstein motif. . . . [M]erits a place
on the shelves of any university or college library.
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