Dear students,
"I've seen things you people wouldn't believe..."
Mostly by using this new whiz bang high tech thingee called the Internet. Here are a few resources to help you in your comparative study of Frankenstein and Blade Runner.
Tips for Writing about the Comparative Study
Watch the video for this old intelligent sounding guy's tips on understanding Frankenstein and Bladerunner
A good overview of the Comparative study for students (although a bit studenty) is this Student website
Frankie Links
A good site for a definition, explanation and history of the Gothic novel http://www.jahsonic.com/GothicNovel.html
This site http://www.frankensteinfilms.com/ is great for a summary of Mary Shelley's personal history, how she came to write Frankenstein, the context and Frankenstein's legacy in popular culture. as is this one http://www.nlm.nih.gov/frankenstein/preface.html for an overview of the main ideas and themes and relevant quotes. For an 'interesting' (well I think it's interesting) take on the religious and moral element of the novel read this article. While for a discussion of Mary Shelley's novel as a nineteenth-century, Romantic, and Feminist reading of Paradise Lost read: http://www.victorianweb.org/previctorian/mshelley/pva229.html
The source material for Blade Runner "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep" was written by sci-fi writer Phillip K Dick. To learn more about him, his work and his influence go to: www.philipkdick.com
and www.wired.com
and www.wired.com
Get an insight into Dick's mind through his speech How to build a universe that doesn't fall apart in two days - pay attention to Dick's ideas on reality and what constitutes an authentic human being - an
important theme in BR and throughout his stories.
For links to analysis of the film go to: http://br-insight.com/analysis/
And for a great review and side by side comparison of Dick's novel and the film try: http://www.filmsite.org/blad.html
There's much more out there. I'll keep updating this over the next few lessons. Here's the visual representation - game I was talking about... What did the Shelley's monster look like? The classic image of Frankenstein - as the monster became known overshadows the image from the novel.
See the trailer of the 1931 movie....
Kenneth Branagh's 90's version with Robert De Niro as the monster is probably more accurate....
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