Undergraduate English major, Jacob Gerald Ring was recently accepted to\u00a0 attend\u00a0the Bicentennial Undergraduate Conference Mary Shelley\u2019s\u00a0Frankenstein<\/i>\u00a0, sponsored by the English Department at the University of South Dakota for his paper titled, “Frankenstein in Film: A Critical Analysis of Complimenting Perspectives,” In this paper, Ring discusses James Whale\u2019s 1931 adaptation of Mary Shelly\u2019s Frankenstein, which Ring claims spearheaded Hollywood horror through its original presentation of Frankenstein\u2019s monster, whose image continues to reverberate in popular culture. Despite that Whale\u2019s creative decisions were by no means an \u201cobjective\u201d analysis of the original text, they served to critically elucidate Shelly\u2019s marvel. Quite simply, Whale\u2019s adaptation, which relies heavily on German expressionism, assisted in importing Shelly\u2019s Gothic mood into film and served to underscore the foundational sociopsychological themes addressed in the novel apropos the nature of the abject, the Other, \u201cMan\u201d and his pathological superiority complex, and the failings of technological exceptionalism. Collectively these decisions amount to mise en scene of augmented anxiety provocation in which lighting, set design, framing, camera angle\/shot, acting, and sound effects illustrate subliminal, repressed psychical disturbances natural to modernity and oppressive masculinity.<\/p>\n
The\u00a0Frankenstein\u00a0<\/i><\/b>Bicentennial Undergraduate Conference<\/b> features panels of undergraduate students presenting critical papers on\u00a0Frankenstein<\/i>\u00a0and related topics. The University of South Dakota held a\u00a0Frankenstein\u00a0<\/i>200! Symposium in February, and this upcoming conference, which is scheduled to occur in October, is part of\u00a0Frankenreads<\/i>, an ongoing international celebration of the 200th anniversary of Shelley\u2019s novel organized by the Keats-Shelley Association of America.<\/p>\n
Jacob Ring is majoring in English, Philosophy, Psychology, and Economics\u00a0 with a minor in Interdisciplinary Studies. With respect to English, he is interested in literary analysis and theory – more specifically,\u00a0 Gothic literature, African American literature, and Postmodernist\u00a0literature. After graduating with his B.A., Ring plans to enroll in a Ph.D. program in English, Philosophy, or Psychology.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Undergraduate English major, Jacob Gerald Ring was recently accepted to\u00a0 attend\u00a0the Bicentennial Undergraduate Conference Mary Shelley\u2019s\u00a0Frankenstein\u00a0, sponsored by the English Department at the University of South Dakota for his paper titled, “Frankenstein in Film: A Critical Analysis of Complimenting Perspectives,” In this paper, Ring discusses James Whale\u2019s 1931 adaptation of Mary Shelly\u2019s Frankenstein, which Ring […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1527,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1501","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-announcements"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.unm.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1501","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.unm.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.unm.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.unm.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.unm.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1501"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/english.unm.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1501\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1530,"href":"https:\/\/english.unm.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1501\/revisions\/1530"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.unm.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1527"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.unm.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1501"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.unm.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1501"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.unm.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1501"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}