Encyclopedia - Picnic Film: Encyclopedia Ii - Picnic Film - Criticism
The film was later dissmissed or mildly panned in retrospective reviews written during the 1970s and 80s. But by the end of the 20th cent...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Frankenstein: Encyclopedia Ii - Frankenstein - Film Adaptations
Frankenstein - Trivia. Depictions of The Monster have varied widely, from mindless killing machines (as in many of the Hammer films) t...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Mary Shelley: Encyclopedia Ii - Mary Shelley - Biography
Mary Shelley was born in London, England, the second daughter of famed feminist, educator and writer Mary Wollstonecraft and the equally ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Frankenstein: Encyclopedia Ii - Frankenstein - Publication
Mary Shelley completed her writing in May 1817, and Frankenstein, or The Modern Prometheus was first published on 1 January 1818 by the s...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Frankenstein: Encyclopedia Ii - Frankenstein - Plot Synopsis
The novel opens with Captain Walton on a ship sailing north of the Arctic Circle. Walton's ship becomes ice-bound, and as he contemplates...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Frankenstein: Encyclopedia Ii - Frankenstein - The Name Of The Creature
The creature – "my hideous progeny" – was not given a name by Mary Shelley, and is only referred to as "The Monster", "The Creature" ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Frankenstein: Encyclopedia Ii - Frankenstein - Name Origins
Frankenstein - Frankenstein. Mary Shelley always maintained that she derived the name "Frankenstein" from a dream-vision, but the origi...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Frankenstein: Encyclopedia Ii - Frankenstein - The Name Of The Creature
The creature – "my hideous progeny" – was not given a name by Mary Shelley, and is only referred to as "The Monster", "The Creature" ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Frankenstein: Encyclopedia Ii - Frankenstein - Other Adaptations
Frankenstein - Radio. In 1938, George Edwards produced a 13-part, 3-hour series for radio. It follows the structure and spirit of novel...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Frankenstein: Encyclopedia Ii - Frankenstein - Publication
Mary Shelley completed her writing in May 1817, and Frankenstein, or The Modern Prometheus was first published on 1 January 1818 by the s...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Picnic Film: Encyclopedia Ii - Picnic Film - Based On A Pulitzer Prize Winning Play
Considered daring at the time, it stars William Holden, Kim Novak, Susan Strasberg, Cliff Robertson, Arthur O'Connell, Nick Adams, Betty ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Frankenstein: Encyclopedia Ii - Frankenstein - The Name Of The Creature
The creature – "my hideous progeny" – was not given a name by Mary Shelley, and is only referred to as "The Monster", "The Creature" ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Frankenstein: Encyclopedia Ii - Frankenstein - Analysis
Frankenstein is in some ways allegorical, and was conceived and written during an early phase of the Industrial Revolution, at a time of ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Frankenstein: Encyclopedia Ii - Frankenstein - Other Adaptations
Frankenstein - Radio. In 1938, George Edwards produced a 13-part, 3-hour series for radio. It follows the structure and spirit of novel...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Frankenstein: Encyclopedia Ii - Frankenstein - Influence
Science fiction author Isaac Asimov coined the term Frankenstein complex for the fear of robots. Frankenstein or Franken- is sometimes us...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Frankenstein: Encyclopedia Ii - Frankenstein - Plot Synopsis
The novel opens with Captain Walton on a ship sailing north of the Arctic Circle. Walton's ship becomes ice-bound, and as he contemplates...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Frankenstein: Encyclopedia Ii - Frankenstein - Name Origins
Frankenstein - Frankenstein. Mary Shelley always maintained, in a claim to originality, that she derived the name "Frankenstein" from a...   » Read the article