Friday, February 21, 2020

Thinking Activity : cultural study in practice : Frankenstein and writer's market

Welcome readers !

♣️ Frankenstein in contemporary Indian culture :-


             In the Routledge Literary Sourcebook on Frankenstein, Timothy Marton uses the term Frankenphemes, drawn from Phonemes ( Sonic elements of language as used in structural linguistic)and graphemes (visual elements), as " elements of culture that are derived from Frankenstein". Broadly defined, Frankenphemes demonstrate the entext of the novel's presence in world cultures, as the encoding of race and class in the 1824 Canning speech in parliament, in today's global debates about such thing as a genetically engineered food and of course in fiction and other media .

♣️ The Greatest Horror Story Ever Written :- 

                   Frankenstein's fictions Peter Haining , editor of the indispensable Frankenstein Omnibus has called Frankenstein "the single greatest Horror Story novel ever written and the most widely influential in its genre".  Apparently the first writer to attempt a straightforward short tail inspired by Frankenstein was Herman melville whose story "The Bell Tower"  was published in puritan monthly magazine in 1855. In Renaissance Italy, a scientist constructs a mechanical man to ring the hours on a bill in a tall tower, but it turns instead upon its creator .

         Jack London's early story " A Thousand Deaths" (1897) is a gruesome science fiction tele of a scientist who stays at sea on his laboratory ship, repeatedly killing then reviving his son, until the son has enough and kills his father.

♣️ Frankenstein On The Stage :-

                     The first theatrical presentation based on Frankenstein was Presumption or, The Fate of Frankenstein by Richard Brinsley Peake , performed at the English Opera House in London in the summer of 1823 and  subsequently reviewed meny time. Mary Shelley her self attend the play and pronounced it authentic. But this "serious" drama immediately inspired parodies , first with Frankenstitch in 1823, a burlesque featuring a tailor , who as the " Needle Prometheus " sews a body out of nine corpses later that year opened Franke-n-steam , in which a student foolishly revives the corpse of a bailiff.

                 In modern time Frankenstein has been a staple of many stages. Frankenstein And His Bride was performed at a club called Strip City in Los Angeles in the late 1950s. " Oh, What A Beautiful Morning" and " Ghoul of My Dreams". The children's production H. R. Pufustuf toured the United States in 1972 and featured Witchiepoo the which creating a Frankenstein monster.

♣️ Film Adaptation :-

              In the Frankenstein Omnibus, readers can study the screenplay fourth 1931 James Whale film Frankenstein, the most famous of all adaptations , It was loosely based on the novel with the addition of new elements, including the placing of a criminal brain into the monsters body . The first film version of Frankenstein, however, was produced by Thomas Edison in 1910 , a one-real tinted silent . The early film, including this one, were able to move away from the melodrama and clumsy moralism of the stage production and focus on more dreamlike and bizarre episodes that have more to do with the novels theme of creation.  Farly German films that were heavily influenced by this Frankenstein were The Cabinet of Dr Caligari (1920) , The Golem (1920), and Metropolis (1927).



         

                       

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