FrankensteinAdaptations & Book Covers

The monster has a life of its own…

• Subject of plays, movies and television shows, action figures, graphic novels, comic books, music, and is even featured on a cereal box.

• Reinterpreted and retold across a wide range of media and across generations.

• Adaptations often interpret the tale and reflect in some way the interests of their own time period.

• What might account for the enduring appeal of the story?

Book Covers & Illustrations

1831 FrankensteinFirst illustration of the creature

CreateSpace (2010)

Oxford World’s Classics (2008)

Title page (1818 edition)

Gallery of Bernie Wrightson’s illustrated Frankenstein (1983)

Gallery of Wrightson's illustrations

Film Adaptations

Film adaptations—Edison Studios (1910)

Full-Length Movie

James Whale’s Frankenstein (1931)

•Directed by James Whale

•Boris Karloff as monster

•Colin Clive as Victor•Moment of Creation

Kenneth Branagh’s Frankenstein (1994)

•Produced by Francis Ford Coppola

•Directed by Kenneth Branagh (who plays Victor)

•Robert De Niro as the monster

•Trailer

Mel Brooks’sYoung Frankenstein (1974)

•Peter Boyle as monster

Danny Boyle’s Frankenstein

Frankenstein Official Trailer