The Very First Film Adaptation of Mary Shelleys Frankenstein, a Thomas Edison Production (1910)
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- What is Frankenstein’s monster but a Gothic recreation of the Golem, or any number of folkloric automatons in cultures far and wide?
- In the original Frankenstein, a novel written by a woman, Mary Shelley, we have a very different kind of mon ster, born out of a Romantic convergence of interest in alchemy and the occult.
The story of humans creating monstrous beings in their image may have perennial relevance, even if it seems specific to our contemporary cultural moment.
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