Sci-Friday 08.
Frankenstein!
Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin, later Mary Shelley. Percy Bysshe Shelley. And, of course, Lord Byron.
“The Vampyre” by John William Polidori.
Thomas Edison released the first ever adaptation of the story in motion picture form in 1910.
Byron was a big fan of Prometheus Bound by Aeschylus. Percy Shelley eventually wrote Prometheus Unbound. And it was Kant who coined the term “Modern Prometheus” to describe Benjamin Franklin’s then recent experiments with electricity.
The Frankenstein argument in transhumanism.
The Frankenstein complex.
The Mad Scientist!
Paradise Lost by John Milton.
The creature and little Maria.
Gene Wilder, Mel Brooks, and Young Frankenstein.
Robert De Niro as the creature and Kenneth Branagh as the mad scientist.
Frankenstein Wastes A Minute Of Our Time.
“Frankenstein” by the Edgar Winter Group.
A Vindication of the Rights of Woman by Mary Wollstonecraft, the mother of Frankenstein’s author.
I Was A Teenage Frankenstein, 1957.
Frankenstein Conquers The World, 1965.
The “Post Modern Prometheus” episode of The X-Files.
John McCain:
