Bride of FrankensteinManguel gives a detailed and highly sensitive account of the film's felicities of inventive film-making. He also traces the literary roots of the Frankenstein myth, the creation of a living being by a man usurping the powers of a jealous God. And he finds echoes in the work of modern artists such as Max Ernst and Marcel Duchamp of the Bride as a kind of femme fatale, monstrous and threatening. |
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Meeting the Monster | 7 |
The Doctor and the Devil 24 WHYLNSITY OF MICHIGAN LIBRARIES | 27 |
Two Brides for Two Brothers | 39 |
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