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4 A paranoid parable of adaptation

Forbidden Planet, Frankenstein, and the atomic age

Abstract

While Forbidden Planet draws on Shakespeare’s The Tempest, with science standing in for magic, an equally important source during this time of atomic paranoia is Frankenstein, which exposes the Cold War context during the mid-1950s, tying Forbidden Planet to other films concerned with the contemporary debate on how atomic power is to be controlled, and who is to control it. This is a problem Forbidden Planet’s Krell race neglected to consider, and it led to their annihilation. This essay makes a case for the importance of Frankenstein and its popular-culture progeny as important intertexts of Forbidden Planet in terms of the ties between Frankenstein and his monster, atomic scientists and theirs, and Morbius and his id monster. All three pairs embody variants of a process associated with information networks called feedback loops, in these cases connecting creators and creations.

Abstract

While Forbidden Planet draws on Shakespeare’s The Tempest, with science standing in for magic, an equally important source during this time of atomic paranoia is Frankenstein, which exposes the Cold War context during the mid-1950s, tying Forbidden Planet to other films concerned with the contemporary debate on how atomic power is to be controlled, and who is to control it. This is a problem Forbidden Planet’s Krell race neglected to consider, and it led to their annihilation. This essay makes a case for the importance of Frankenstein and its popular-culture progeny as important intertexts of Forbidden Planet in terms of the ties between Frankenstein and his monster, atomic scientists and theirs, and Morbius and his id monster. All three pairs embody variants of a process associated with information networks called feedback loops, in these cases connecting creators and creations.

Kapitel in diesem Buch

  1. Front matter i
  2. Dedication v
  3. Contents vii
  4. List of illustrations ix
  5. Notes on contributors xii
  6. Introduction 1
  7. 1 Frankenstein’s spectacular nineteenth-century stage history and legacy 23
  8. 2 A Frankensteinian model for adaptation studies, or ‘It lives!’ 45
  9. 3 The Gothic imagination in American sound recordings of Frankenstein 62
  10. Part II: Cinematic and television adaptations of Frankenstein
  11. 4 A paranoid parable of adaptation 79
  12. 5 The Curse of Frankenstein 92
  13. 6 The Frankenstein Complex on the small screen 111
  14. 7 The new ethics of Frankenstein 128
  15. 8 Hammer Films and the perfection of the Frankenstein project 143
  16. Part III: Literary adaptations of Frankenstein
  17. 9 ‘Plainly stitched together’ 161
  18. 10 Frankensteinian re-articulations in Scotland 178
  19. 11 Young Frankensteins 191
  20. In his image: the mad scientist remade in the young adult novel
  21. 13 The soul of the matter 221
  22. 14 Illustration, adaptation, and the development of Frankenstein’s visual lexicon 239
  23. 15 ‘The X-Men meet Frankenstein! “Nuff Said”’ 259
  24. 16 Expressionism, deformity, and abject texture in bande dessinée appropriations of Frankenstein 270
  25. Part V: New media adaptations of Frankenstein
  26. 17 Assembling the body/text 295
  27. 18 Adaptations of ‘liveness’ in theatrical representations of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein 316
  28. Frankenstein’s pulse 335
  29. Index 340
Adapting Frankenstein
Ein Kapitel aus dem Buch Adapting Frankenstein
https://doi.org/10.7765/9781526108920.00012

Kapitel in diesem Buch

  1. Front matter i
  2. Dedication v
  3. Contents vii
  4. List of illustrations ix
  5. Notes on contributors xii
  6. Introduction 1
  7. 1 Frankenstein’s spectacular nineteenth-century stage history and legacy 23
  8. 2 A Frankensteinian model for adaptation studies, or ‘It lives!’ 45
  9. 3 The Gothic imagination in American sound recordings of Frankenstein 62
  10. Part II: Cinematic and television adaptations of Frankenstein
  11. 4 A paranoid parable of adaptation 79
  12. 5 The Curse of Frankenstein 92
  13. 6 The Frankenstein Complex on the small screen 111
  14. 7 The new ethics of Frankenstein 128
  15. 8 Hammer Films and the perfection of the Frankenstein project 143
  16. Part III: Literary adaptations of Frankenstein
  17. 9 ‘Plainly stitched together’ 161
  18. 10 Frankensteinian re-articulations in Scotland 178
  19. 11 Young Frankensteins 191
  20. In his image: the mad scientist remade in the young adult novel
  21. 13 The soul of the matter 221
  22. 14 Illustration, adaptation, and the development of Frankenstein’s visual lexicon 239
  23. 15 ‘The X-Men meet Frankenstein! “Nuff Said”’ 259
  24. 16 Expressionism, deformity, and abject texture in bande dessinée appropriations of Frankenstein 270
  25. Part V: New media adaptations of Frankenstein
  26. 17 Assembling the body/text 295
  27. 18 Adaptations of ‘liveness’ in theatrical representations of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein 316
  28. Frankenstein’s pulse 335
  29. Index 340
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