Table of Contents
Introduction
Part I: Frankenstein in Film, Theatre, Music, Comics and Visual Art
1. Frankenstein's Frontispiece, the Missing Phallus and the Pornographer: The Alchemy of Conceiving Monstrosities
Marie Mulvey-Roberts, University of the West of England, UK
2. Monstrous Encounters: The Aesthetic Psychology of Screen Frankensteins
Kevin J. Donnelly, University of Southampton, UK
3. Frankenstein and the Media of Serial Figures
Shane Denson, Stanford University, USA
4. Musical Directions, Sound and Song in Presumption, or the Fate of Frankenstein (1823)
John Higney, Carleton University, Canada
5. Birth of a 'Miserable Monster': The Theatricality of Male Self-Procreation in Stage and Screen Adaptations of Frankenstein
André Loiselle, St. Thomas University, Canada
6. Excising the Repulsive: Mysticism and Psychology in Edison's Frankenstein (1910)
Ethan Towns, Trent University, Canada
7. Frankenstein's Organ Transplant: Adaptation in Afro-Futurist and Electronic Dance Musics
Mark McCutcheon, Athabaska University, Canada
Part II: Monstrosity in Music, Film and Video Games
8. Monstrosity as a Queer Aesthetic
Lloyd Whitesell, McGill University, Canada
9. Twelve-tone Terror: Representing Horror and Monstrosity in Dodecaphonic Film Music
James K. Wright, Carleton University, Canada
10. The Horror, the Horror! White Women are the True Monsters in Jordan Peele's Get Out
Frederick W. Gooding, Jr., Texas Christian University, USA
11. Indigeneity as Monstrosity in The Four Skulls of Jonathan Drake
Murray Leeder, University of Manitoba, Canada
12. A 'Distaste for. . . Allegory' or: In the Bowels of Horror
Daniel Humphrey, Texas A&M University, USA
13.Tragic Wraiths, Seductive Sirens and Man-Eating Vampires: Female Monstrosity in The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt Video Game
Sarah Stang, Brock University, Canada
Acknowledgements
Bibliography
Filmography
Index
