Bianca Friedman

• PhD Student at Edge Hill University

Scholars agree that Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein is one of the most influential novels from the twentieth century. Recent studies (Cutchins and Perry; Saggini; Parrino) have called for a more interdisciplinary and transmedia approach to Frankenstein’s adaptations. Friedman’s article focuses on Mel Brook’s parodic film adaptation Young Frankenstein (...

Italian abstract: Young Frankenstein (1974) di Mel Brooks è un'accurata parodia della trilogia Universal di film degli anni '30, adattata dal popolare romanzo di Mary Shelley. Il dialogo intertestuale implicito nel-la pratica parodica permette di mettere esplicitamente in luce lo spettatore nel suo ruolo centrale di costruzione del significato. You...

Queer theories allow us to denaturalise the boundary between animals and humans by showing it to be a social construct. By applying them to cultural products, it becomes clear how the binary opposition "animality-humanity" actually depends on performativity. Among the many movies featuring animal characters, in this paper I analyse Crin Blanc by Al...

The representation of animals in movies deals with an unavoidable premise which has pragmatic consequences: movies are made by humans, for humans. Therefore, since humans usually define their identity in opposition to animals, representing them as individuals implies a problematic application of human categories to animal characters' performance. T...