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Bernie44443 May 2024
This is one of the many "Great Books" series, I chose Frankenstein: The Making of the Monster.

"Great Books" Season 1 episode 2 Episode aired Sep 8, 1993 on the Learning Channel. I watched it on the independent Discovery Channel. Discovery Education.

I have read the novel first. Now we will see what Great Books has to say with a few graphics and a narrator voice you will recognize immediately. After a quick introduction of the movie, we get down to business.

This is more of a Mary Shelly biography told through the description of her book. It was the waking dream of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelly in 1816.

Ann rice (who better) tells the tail of Mary Shelly.

We also get sound bite type information from Anne Melior from UCLA on DNA manipulation doing more damage than good.

Again, another sound bite from Keith Neilson from California State University, Fullerton. Frankenstein is anything that we set in motion that we cannot control.

We get an overview of Mary Shellie's child hood from Marilyn Butler from King's College, Cambridge University.

Another quickie background of the parents by Betty T. Bennett from American University.

Now they compare and contrast the book to other stories and characters. This is what you were waiting for. Not just a story but its environment.

Eventually we get comparisons to the many play versions. Then The Bride of Frankenstein. Finally Young Frankenstein.

It is interesting all the people and other writers that she knew at the time

Executive Editor Walter Cronkite Writer Eugenie Vink Narrator Donald Sutherland Forrest J. Ackerman - self Anne Rice - self.
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