Love it or Hate it? The New BBC/Netflix Dracula
January 22, 2020
The new Netflix adaptation has divided audiences: some love it, some hate it. This week, Stephanie and Kirstin give their verdict (spoiler: they neither loved nor hated it!)
FrankenReads @ Macquarie Session 3: Frankenstein Goes to the Movies
November 28, 2018
To celebrate the 200th anniversary of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein we will be releasing recordings from the FrankenReads event at Macquarie University in September.
This week's recording features the following presentations:
“’Yes Master, No Master’: The Cinematic Development of Igor in the Frankenstein Narrative” by Guy Webster
“Monstrous Scions: Frankenstein and Posthumanist Mythology” by Paul Sheehan
FrankenReads @ Macquarie Session 2: New Perspectives on Frankenstein
November 14, 2018
To celebrate the 200th anniversary of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein we will be releasing recordings from the FrankenReads event at Macquarie University in September.
This week's recording features the following presentations:
“The Tangled World of Frankenstein and Conflict of Laws” by Harry Melkonian
“Frankenstein in Hyperspace: The Return of Twenty-first-century Digital Technologies to the Origins of Virtual Space in Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein” by Kirstin Mills
FrankenReads @ Macquarie Session 1: Revisiting Frankenstein
October 31, 2018
To celebrate the 200th anniversary of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein we will be releasing recordings from the FrankenReads event at Macquarie University in September.
This week's recording features the following presentations:
“’My Beloved Sister’: The Other Family in Frankenstein” by Lee O’Brien
'Using “the living animal” to re-animate “lifeless clay”: The role of vivisection in the creation of Frankenstein's monster' by Libby King
“’The reflections of my hours of despondency and solitude’: Narrating Solitude in Mary Shelley's Frankenstein” by Geoffrey Payne
For more info and some bonus materials visit our website at: https://www.fromthelighthouse.org
The Spoooooky Halloween Show
October 25, 2017
Do you like spoooooky novels? Tv shows? Movies? Podcasts? Why do we like to be scared, anyway? To celebrate Halloween, Stephanie and Jimmy are joined by Dr Kirstin Mills to discuss werewolves, vampires, mermaids, ghosts, witches, and the delicious thrill of terror.
