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The Literary Monster on Film: Five Nineteenth Century British Novels and Their Cinematic Adaptations

The Literary Monster on Film: Five Nineteenth Century British Novels and Their Cinematic Adaptations

Bloom, Abigail Burnham

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Film Studies

ISBN10: 0786442611
ISBN13: 9780786442614
Publisher: McFarland & Company
Published: Sep 7 2010
Pages: 218
Weight: 0.66
Height: 0.50 Width: 5.90 Depth: 8.90
Language: English

Many monsters in Victorian British novels were intimately connected with the protagonists, and representative of both the personal failings of a character and the failings of the society in which he or she lived. By contrast, more recent film adaptations of these novels depict the creatures as arbitrarily engaging in senseless violence, and suggest a modern fear of the uncontrollable. This work analyzes the dichotomy through examinations of Shelley's Frankenstein, Stoker's Dracula, H. Rider Haggard's She, Stevenson's Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and Wells's The Island of Dr. Moreau, and consideration of the 20th century film adaptations of the works.

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