https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pMPxaTRgrNw
A reading of James Whale's "Bride of Frankenstein" through the lens of queer film theory and how this modernizes a tragic tale of being unable to find accept

https://filmotomy.com/haunting-queer-reading-bride-of-frankenstein/
The Bride of Frankenstein is ultimately a tragedy because of the horrors of the society willing to attack a creature just because he doesn't fit into the traditional mold that society expects a creature to fit into. The same audience in 1935 which experienced this was the same society that would turn around and attack the LGBTQ+ community

https://screenrant.com/bride-frankenstein-lgbtq-icon-history-explained/
The Bride of Frankenstein is more than a horror classic; it's a movie that made the LGBTQ+ community feel seen as far back as 1935. The Bride herself is an icon who has been embraced, loved, and very much misunderstood by various audiences. Even in horror cinema, LGBTQ+ representation is important, and maybe someday the Bride will get the

https://medium.com/the-blog-in-the-woods/a-new-world-of-gods-and-monsters-the-queer-legacy-of-the-bride-of-frankenstein-c403a76d0736
The Bride of Frankenstein exists as a rich movie that has stood the test of time. Aside from its status in the horror genre, it's also crucial within queer cinema.

http://www.fromthefrontrow.net/2022/06/30-days-of-queer-cinema-day-29-bride-of.html
30 Days of Queer Cinema - Day 29 | The Bride of Frankenstein That James Whale managed to make this idiosyncratic masterpiece at a major studio in 1935 remains an impressive feat. It not only manages to deepen the character of Frankenstein's monster, it creates a greater sense of pathos around his inherent tragedy.

https://collider.com/queer-horror-revolution-the-bride-of-frankenstein-the-last-thing-mary-saw/
Ernest Thesiger as Dr. Pretorious has become a beloved queer character, despite meeting an untimely demise in the film thanks to the Hays code. Unfortunately, things got real regressive after this

https://litreactor.com/columns/exploring-the-inherent-queer-undertones-of-mary-shelleys-frankenstein.html
Frankenstein seems to ignore sex altogether, eschewing it in favor of study. To Frankenstein, sex and family are mutually exclusive with the success and power he seeks. He chooses to pursue power, and he creates a being entirely without the aid of the female body. Frankenstein turns sex—and Elizabeth—into something unnecessary, frivolous

https://bloody-disgusting.com/podcasts/3675021/the-bride-of-frankenstein-epitome-queer-horror-horror-queers-podcast/
This time it's the iconic The Bride of Frankenstein (1935), which features no shortage of queer talent (Whale, Ernest Thesiger, Colin Clive) OR queer readings (the Creature as Other; Dr

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2023/10/09/our-hideous-progeny-ce-mcgill-book-review-reproduction-louisa-hall-mary-and-the-birth-of-frankenstein-anne-eekhout
The narrative unfolds in hypnotic language steeped in fantasy and allusion, poetically translated from the Dutch by Laura Watkinson. The girls examine a book about mythological gender-bending sea

https://lfq.salisbury.edu/_issues/50_4/frankenbitches_adapting_frankensteins_female_monster_in_literature_and_film.html
I argue corruption and disruption are intertwined in the Frankenstein Bride narrative. This essay explores the possibilities that adaptations as a queering process gives us. The palimpsestic process is a queer one. In this essay, I argue recent adaptations have provided The Bride with queer and disruptive sources of possibility.

https://blogs.baruch.cuny.edu/literarytheory2021/files/2021/09/what_is_queer_aboutfrankenstein.pdf
her into the northern climes of the Atlantic Ocean. The scientist dies on a passing ship of exploratio. , and the monster disappears into the frozen north.This bald version of the plot of the novel shows how very queer it can seem: masculine birth, lurid devotion between males, sexual aggression, and finally a completely obsessive relation

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/13/t-magazine/art/frankenstein-monster-queer-art.html
Bill Condon's 1998 film "Gods and Monsters" created both a kind of queer origin story and creation myth for the Monster's continuing presence in popular culture. An account of the last

https://www.grunge.com/348046/the-true-story-behind-the-bride-of-frankenstein/
At least nine scripts in various states of revision were written for the film to be titled The Return of Frankenstein.For inspiration, James Whale overlooked the various stage versions of Frankenstein and went to Mary Shelley's original text.Reworking an unsatisfactory script by John L. Balderston, the playwright best known for his hit dramatic adaptation of Dracula, Whale partnered first with

https://www.litlog.de/frankenstein-the-queer-and-the-mother/
Frankenstein, or the Modern Prometheus is queer in many ways, one of which is the anti-normative nature of Victor Frankenstein's creation of fatherhood, and how he eradicates motherhood and femininity to create his queer creature.. By Arezoo Izadi. Picture: Via Pixabay, CC0. Frankenstein, or the Modern Prometheus, a novel first published in 1818, continues to be deeply embedded in culture

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bride_of_Frankenstein
Bride of Frankenstein is a 1935 American science fiction horror film, and the first sequel to Universal Pictures' 1931 film Frankenstein.As with the first film, Bride of Frankenstein was directed by James Whale starring Boris Karloff as the Monster and Colin Clive as Dr. Frankenstein. The sequel features Elsa Lanchester in the dual role of Mary Shelley and the bride.

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https://stayhappening.com/e/queer-screams-presents-the-bride-of-frankenstein-E2ISWOJ2C53
Join Queer Screams Film Festival and the Clinton Street Theater for a very special screening of "The Bride Of Frankenstein". Directed by openly gay director James Whale, and featuring gay (or bisexual) actors Ernest Thesiger and Colin Clive, "Bride" is considered a classic. Frankenstein's bride is perhaps one of the most represented but

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gay_Bride_of_Frankenstein
Gay Bride of Frankenstein is an American comic-book rock musical written by Dane Leeman and Billy Butler, with music and lyrics by Billy Butler. The concept album was created by Billy Butler and the Monster Makers during the 2008 RPM Challenge and premiered live on stage at the Players' Ring Theatre in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, that same year.

https://weddingsinathens.com/what-does-the-bride-of-frankenstein-represent.html
Why is the bride of Frankenstein queer? The Bride of Frankenstein was an early LGBTQ movie. James Whale, an openly gay director, made the film with bisexual actor Ernest Thesiger. It reflects them. In the film, Thesiger played Dr. Frankenstein's mentor, Dr. Pretorius. Whale told him to act as an over-the-top homosexual.

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Yes that's right. Right monster appears. And I like that glimpse that you know after the thieves leave that glimpse of just him alone what that looks like because it's a strange guy and you

https://weddingsinathens.com/what-is-the-bride-of-frankenstein-about.html
The Queer Tragedy of BRIDE OF FRANKENSTEIN; Bride of Frankenstein is a 1935 American science fiction horror film, the first sequel to Universal Pictures' 1931 film Frankenstein. Directed by James Whale, the film stars Boris Karloff as the Monster and Colin Clive as Dr. Frankenstein. The sequel follows Baron Henry Frankenstein, who has not

https://weddingsinathens.com/what-was-bride-of-frankenstein-about.html
The Bride of Frankenstein is a subversive work that begins where James Whale's Frankenstein ended. Frankenstein wants to get out of the evil experiment business, but when a mad scientist, Dr. Pretorius, kidnaps his wife, Dr. Frankenstein agrees to help him create a new creature. The original Bride of Frankenstein was released in 1935 and

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Bride!
The Bride! is an upcoming American science fiction horror film directed, written, and co-produced by Maggie Gyllenhaal, and starring Penélope Cruz, Christian Bale, Jessie Buckley, Peter Sarsgaard, Annette Bening, and Gyllenhaal's younger brother, Jake Gyllenhaal.The film draws inspiration from James Whale ' s 1935 film Bride of Frankenstein, itself adapted from Mary Shelley's 1818 novel