Frankenstein: A Modern Myth
Program Running Time
91 min.
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Films in Program
Directed By: Adam Low
(UK, 2012, 48 mins, HDCAM)
Prior to orchestrating the London Olympics Opening spectacular, Danny Boyle staged an exhilarating reworking of Frankenstein for the National Theatre. Documentarian Adam Low takes us backstage and explores why Mary Shelly’s horror story was so radical when written and why it possesses such enduring appeal. Plays with: Salman Rushdie: Imagining India
Directed By: Elisa Mantin
(France, 2011, 43 mins, DVD)
India and Mumbai as seen through the eyes of Salman Rushdie form the core of Elisa Mantin’s incisive and revealing examination of the author and the sources of his novelistic imagination. Plays with: Frankenstein: A Modern Myth