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Author: Frederick C. Wiebel Publisher: Bearmanor Media ISBN: 9781593935153 Category : Performing Arts Languages : en Pages : 288
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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: Frederick C. Wiebel Publisher: Bearmanor Media ISBN: 9781593935153 Category : Performing Arts Languages : en Pages : 288
Book Description
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: Frederick C. Wiebel Publisher: ISBN: 9781929515271 Category : Frankenstein films Languages : en Pages : 62
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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: Susan Tyler Hitchcock Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company ISBN: 9780393061444 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 412
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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: Elizabeth Young Publisher: NYU Press ISBN: 0814745377 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 336
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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: Sidney Perkowitz Publisher: Simon and Schuster ISBN: 1681776979 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 337
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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: 9781890313098 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 144
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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: Shane Denson Publisher: transcript Verlag ISBN: 3839428173 Category : Performing Arts Languages : en Pages : 433
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»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: Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley Publisher: Harvard University Press ISBN: 0674055527 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 400
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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: Frederick C. Wiebel
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