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Cultivate a love of nature!
(6th-12th Grade)
Wednesdays; Jan. 9, Feb. 13, Mar. 12, Apr. 9, May 14; 5 p.m. at Roy and Helen Hall Library (Hall)
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Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
Tells the story of Victor Frankenstein, a promising young doctor who, devastated by the death of his mother during child birth, becomes obsessed with bringing the dead back to life. His experiments lead to the creation of a creature which Frankenstein has put together from the remains of corpes. The creature turns into a monster when Dr. Frankenstein rejects him. Sticking close to the original novel, the film guides us through the story of Frankenstein's...
4) Mary Shelley
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
The real-life story of Mary Shelley, and the creation of her immortal monster, is nearly as fantastical as her fiction. Raised by a renowned philosopher father in eighteenth-century London, Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin is a teenage dreamer determined to make her mark on the world, when she meets the dashing and brilliant poet Percy Shelley. So begins a torrid, bohemian love affair marked by both passion and personal tragedy that will transform Mary...
5) Frankenstein
Pub. Date
[2011], c1997
Language
English
Description
Frankenstein: the doctor who created life! Was the famed character invented in the mind of novelist Mary Shelley, or was Dr. Frankenstein based in reality, as some argue? This episode of Ancient Mysteries explores Shelley's possible influences. Had she learned of the 18th century German doctor who experimented on dead as well as live bodies; or was her inspiration the Britisher Andrew Crosse, who claimed to use electricity to create life?
Pub. Date
[2006], c2003
Language
English
Description
Her father was philosopher William Godwin. Her mother, Mary Wollstonecraft, was feminism's founder. By pedigree and experience, Mary Shelley was uncannily equipped to write the gothic masterpiece, Frankenstein. This program offers a fresh exploration of her novel, focusing on how Shelley's personal life influenced the book and mirrored it afterwards. Along with reenactments of scenes from her classic and dramatizations of her life, the program draws...
Series
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Though Dracula is still the most pervasive Gothic character and image, in the early 20th Century fantasy horror would be outstripped by real horror as the truth of mechanised warfare dawned on an innocent world. This program follows how the language of Gothic would increasingly come to encapsulate the horrors of the 20th century-from Marx's analysis of 'vampiric' capitalism to T. S. Eliot's image of The Wasteland, a Gothic narrative seemed to make...
Series
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Journalist and novelist Bidisha was fascinated by Bronte's Jane Eyre as a teenager, but re-reading the story as an adult left her feeling uncomfortable. What Bronte had to say about sex and race was darker and more disturbing than she remembered. Revisiting this classic Victorian novel, Bidisha sees her role model, and the society which spawned her, through very different eyes. Is Jane Eyre really the spirited, independent woman Bidisha admired as...
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