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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