Some Kind of Monster

San Francisco Magazine Ian A. Stewart Bill Cooper/S.F. Ballet It’s Frankenstein: the ballet. A curious fact about Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus is that the novel totally glosses over the creature’s creation scene. Is it a bolt of lightning that does the trick, as in the 1931 film adaptation? Or a series of steampunk jumper cables, as in Kenneth Branagh’s 1994 version? Or simply the flip of a switch, as in Mel Brooks’s Young Frankenstein? Images and Captions: Sc...