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Picart, Caroline Joan S. – Critical Studies in Mass Communication, 1998
Contributes to scholarship on film and feminism by showing how James Whale's film attempts to excise or severely delimit the disturbing critique of the Romantic politics of gender in Mary Shelley's novel "Frankenstein." Discusses parthenogenesis, showing how the novel critiques the Romantic rhetorical reconstructions of masculine…
Descriptors: Feminism, Feminist Criticism, Film Criticism, Films