Romanticism and Popular Culture

This evolving bibliography collects media that represent Romantic-era works and historical figures in fictional contexts. We welcome feedback and additions from the RC community.

Film

Crimson Peak

Director:

Guillermo del Toro

Date:

2015

A stuffy society woman reminds Edith Cushing (Mia Wasikowska) that Jane Austen “died a spinster” and Edith replies, “Actually, I’d prefer to be Mary Shelley. She died a widow.”

Dangerous Lives of Altar Boys

Director:

Peter Care

Date:

2002

William Blake's The Marriage of Heaven and Hell appears in the 2002 film adaptation of Chris Fuhrman's 1994 novelThe Dangerous Lives of Altar Boys.

Dead Man

Director:

Jim Jarmusch

Publication Information:

American Zoetrope

Date:

1995

"Johnny Depp plays an accountant from Cleveland named William Blake. He travels into a surreal western landscape where he meets a Crow Indian named 'Nobody' (an equivalent of the Crow name with which he had been branded, meaning something like 'he who talks loudly, but says nothing'). Nobody takes him for a reincarnation of the great English poet whose 'words of power' he had read in London as a boy where he had been taken as a captive.

Doctor Franken

Director:

Marvin J Chomsky, Jeff Lieberman

Publication Information:

NBC (USA)

Date:

1980

This variation of the Frankenstein legend, "suggested by the Mary Shelley story," and set in a brownstone in present day Manhattan, has Robert Vaughn as a determined New York surgeon bringing "parts" home from work -- the hospital where he does experimental research -- to painstakingly rebuild the shattered body of an anonymous patient with organs from various donors. The original title was to have been "The Franken Project," and it was to be the pilot to a prospective series. Filmed entirely on location in Manhattan.

Don Juan de Marco

Director:

Jeremy Leven

Publication Information:

Demetra J. MacBride

Date:

1995

"Starring Johnny Depp; with allusions to Byron's Don Juan." —N. Sweet

Dr. Frankenstein on Campus

Director:

Gil Taylor

Publication Information:

Astral Films/Agincourt

Date:

1970

Directed by Gil Taylor, starring Robin Ward, Kathleen Sawyer, Austin Willis, Sean Sullivan, Ty Haller, and Tony Moffat-Lynch.

Dr. Hackenstein

Director:

Richard Clark

Publication Information:

Vista Street Entertainment (USA)

Date:

1987

Dr. Hackenstein is a 1988 comedy horror film written and directed by Richard Clark and distributed by Troma Entertainment. After the death of his wife, Dr. Hackenstein (David Muir) concocts the perfect plan: with the help of a few graverobbers and a couple of lost girls, he can use the spare parts to reanimate his dead spouse and build a better woman.

Dracula Prisoner of Frankenstein

Director:

Jess Franco

Publication Information:

Fenix Films

Date:

1972

Directed by Jess Franco, starring Denis Price, Howard Vernon, Mary Francis, Albert Dalbes, Genevieve Deloir, and Josiane Gilbet.

Dracula vs. Frankenstein

Director:

Al Adamson

Publication Information:

Independent-International Pictures

Date:

1970

Dracula vs. Frankenstein is a 1971 United States horror film directed by Al Adamson.

--description from Wikipedia

Starring J. Carrol Naish, Lon Chaney, Zandor Vorkov, Anthony Eisley, Regina Carrol, and Greydon Clark.

Dracula vs. Frankenstein (El Hombre que vino del ummo, Dracula jagt Frankenstein, Los Monstruos del terror, Assignment Terror)

Director:

Tulio Demichelli, Hugo Fregonese, Peter Riethof

Publication Information:

Jaime Prades/Eichberg Film/International Jaguar

Date:

1969

Los Monstruos del Terror (English: The Monsters of Terror), also known as Dracula vs. Frankenstein, Reincarnator and Assignment Terror, is a 1970 Spanish-German-Italian horror film directed by Tulio Demicheli, Hugo Fregonese and Eberhard Meichsner.

Emma

Director:

Douglas McGrath

Publication Information:

Miramax, Matchmaker Films, Haft Entertainment

Date:

1996

"In rural 1800s England things go bad for a young matchmaker after she finds a man for another woman." -IMDB

Starring Gwyneth Paltrow.

Emma Hamilton (1968)

Director:

Christian-Jaque

Date:

1968

Tags:

Emma Hamilton

From Wikipedia: Emma Hamilton is a 1968 historical drama film directed by Christian-Jaque and starring Michèle Mercier, Richard Johnson and John Mills. It was partly based on the 1864 novel La Sanfelice by Alexandre Dumas and depicts the love affair between Emma Hamilton and Horatio Nelson

Fearless Frank

Director:

Philip Kaufman

Publication Information:

American International Pictures

Date:

1967

Fearless Frank is a 1967 film directed by Philip Kaufman. It is notable as the film debut of Jon Voight. Voight plays a murdered drifter who gets reanimated and turned into a superhero by a scientist (Severn Darden).

Flesh for Frankenstein (Il Mostro e in Tavola . . . Barone Frankenstein, Carne per Frankenstein, Chair pour Frankenstein)

Director:

Paul Morrissey

Publication Information:

Pagnia Cinematografica Champion, EMI

Date:

1973

Andy Warhol's Frankenstein (original title: Flesh for Frankenstein) is a 1973 Italian-French horror film directed by Paul Morrissey and produced by Andy Warhol, Andrew Braunsberg, Louis Peraino and Carlo Ponti.

Frank Enstein

Director:

Douglas Richards

Publication Information:

International Family Classics (USA)

Date:

1991

Frank is a mechanical human-like son created by Dr. Max Enstein to retrieve a scientific formula which was stolen from him by his competitors. With the help of a TV journalist, Frank is convinced that his father is not a good man and Frank is unable to complete his father's mission effectively. In his search for the formula, Frank is caught in many hilarious situations in which he responds like the "big clumsy kid" that he actually is.

Starring Laura Gabriel, David Nettheim, Lee Perry, and Alan Glover.

Frankenhooker

Director:

Frank Henenlotter

Publication Information:

Levins-Henenlotter, Shapiro-Glickenhaus Entertainment (USA)

Date:

1990

After his attractive fiancée is cut into pieces in a freak accident involving a lawnmower, aspiring mad scientist Jeffrey Franken is determined to put her back together again. He sets about reassembling his girlfriend using parts from a variety of New York prostitutes. However, his bizarre plan goes awry when his reanimated girlfriend no longer wants just him, but for money will take on anybody, and afterwards try to kill them.

Starring James Lorinz, Patty Mullen, Shirley Stoler, Louisa Lasser, Charlotte Helmkamp, and Lia Chang.

Frankenstein

Director:

James Ormerod

Publication Information:

Yorkshire Television (UK)

Date:

1984

A scientist who is obsessed with creating life finally does it, with tragic results.
Starring Robert Powell, Carrie Fisher, David Warner, John Gielgud, Terence Alexander, and Susan Wooldridge.
--description from IMDB.com

Frankenstein

Director:

David Wickes

Publication Information:

Turner Pictures (UK, USA, and Poland)

Date:

1992

Dr. Victor Frankenstein creates his creature, who escapes into the countryside to find that humanity has only pain and sorrow for him. But a psychic link between created and creator draws the two ever nearer, until their paths must inevitably cross again...

Starring Patrick Bergin, John Mills, Randy Quaid, Lambert Wilson, Fiona Gilles, and Jacinta Mulcahy.

--description by IMDB.com

Frankenstein

Director:

Kevin Connor

Publication Information:

Hallmark Entertainment (USA)

Date:

2004

Another adaption of Mary Shelley's novel about a scientist who brings life to a creature fashioned from corpses and various body parts. To date it is likely the most accurate film or mini-series adaptation of the novel. The mini-series was nominated for ASC award for Outstanding Achievement in Cinematography in Movies of the Week/Mini-Series/Pilot (Basic or Pay). It was also nominated for an Artios award for Best Mini Series Casting.

Starring Donald Sutherland, William Hurt, Julie Delpy, Nicole Lewis, Alec Newman, and Luke Goss.

Frankenstein

Director:

David Wickes

Publication Information:

Turner Pictures (UK, USA, and Poland)

Date:

1992

Starring Patrick Bergin, John Mills, Randy Quaid, Lambert Wilson, Fiona Gilles, and Jacinta Mulcahy.

--description by IMDB.com

Frankenstein

Director:

Glenn Jordan

Publication Information:

Dan Curtis Productions

Date:

1973

Directed by Glenn Jordan, starring Robert Foxworth, Susan Strasberg, Heidi Vaughn, Bo Svenson, John Karlen, and Philip Bourneuf.

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