Essays about: "frankenstein"

Showing result 16 - 20 of 25 essays containing the word frankenstein.

1. 16. Re-Story : The O.T.M.I* project*O.T.M.I = Obsolete Technical Mechanical Item

   University essay from Konstfack/Inredningsarkitektur & Möbeldesign

   Author : Ninna Kapadia; [2015]
   Keywords : Restory; re-story; recycling; upcycling; readymade; planned obsolescence; design; the mad scientist; the friendly monster; the poet; frankenstein; scenography; theater; movie making; film making; technology; mechanical; tekniska mekaniska föremål; planerat åldrande; återvinning; film; manus; intervju; scenografi; robot; inredningsarkitektur; design; inredning; scener; scen; filmmusik; mekaniska ljud;

   Abstract : The core question in this master thesis is: What happens to the essence of an object when it becomes out of date and is no longer in use? I am addressing the sense of dignity in once meticulously designed technical/mechanical items that now has become obsolete. The intention has been to investigate how to give new meaning to obsolete items and find new eligibility for their existence. READ MORE

3. 17. Speciesism in Mary Shelley's Frankenstein

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Masterprogram: Litteratur - Kultur – Media; Lunds universitet/Engelska

   Author : Alexandra Kallman; [2015]
   Keywords : Languages and Literatures;

   Abstract : This essay analyses how Mary Shelley challenges speciesist thinking popular at the time of the publication of Frankenstein (1818). Speciesism is a discriminatory belief that favours the human species over any species other than human, and that is manifested in how we perceive and treat nonhuman beings. READ MORE

4. 18. Mary Shelley’s Unrealised Vision : The Cinematic Evolution of Frankenstein’s Monster

   University essay from Stockholms universitet/Engelska institutionen

   Author : Simon Linter; [2014]
   Keywords : Shelley; monster; form; behaviour; adaptation; film; audience;

   Abstract : Mary Shelley’s novel Frankenstein has been the direct source for many adaptations on stage, television and film, and an indirect source for innumerable hybrid versions. One of the central premises of Julie Sanders’s Adaptation and Appropriation (2006) is that adaptations go through a movement of proximation that brings them closer to the audience’s cultural and social spheres. READ MORE

5. 19. Invisible Power : Electricity and Social Visibility in Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man

   University essay from Institutionen för språk (SPR)

   Author : Lucia Hera Culda; [2014]
   Keywords : ellison; electricity; otherness; postcolonialism;

   Abstract : This essay will investigate the role of electricity in Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man, in connection to the concept of Otherness, as a result of race differences. It will argue that electricity in the novel is used as a metaphor in discourses of power by the oppressive white society, as well as a means of resistance for the protagonist/narrator, who is socially invisible because of his race. READ MORE

6. 20. Victor’s Body : Male Hysteria and Homoeroticism in Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein and Kenneth Branagh’s Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein

   University essay from Institutionen för språk (SPR)

   Author : Ulla Kerren; [2014]
   Keywords : hysteria; homoeroticism; homosexuality; male body; masculinity; gender; Foucault; Sedgwick;

   Abstract : This thesis investigates the male body in Mary Shelley’s novel Frankenstein, first published in 1818, and Kenneth Branagh’s film Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, released in 1994. So doing, the thesis focuses on the analysis of hysteria and homoeroticism in three male-male relationships: Victor and the monster, Victor and Walton, and Victor and Clerval. READ MORE