Home / News / Celebrating Frankenstein at the Campus Book Festival 2018 Back to News Celebrating Frankenstein at the Campus Book Festival 2018 Campus Book Festival • Festivals • News 6th March, 2018 As 2018 celebrates the 200th anniversary of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, the National Book Council is organising the screening of J. Searle Dawley’s silent short Frankenstein (1910). It will be followed by a discussion on its cinematographic adaptation and its impact on the collective imagination by Prof. Saviour Catania and Prof. Gloria Lauri Lucente. The event runs as part of the Campus Book Festival, on the University quadrangle at 1 pm on Friday 23 March. This 16-minute film was the first motion picture adaptation of Mary Shelley‘s Frankenstein. The film, revealed only in the middle of the 1970s, is a very liberal adaptation of the novel and focuses on the psychological and the magical aspects of the narrative, while contributing to the development of the horror genre. The ensuing discussion promises to be a highly engaging one, ably directly by Profs. Catania and Lauri Lucente, in their inimitable style. They will focus, in particular, on the impact of Shelley’s novel on cinema and pop culture, mentioning various adaptations such as the Hammer series. Prof. Catania studied English literature at the University of Malta and he is currently Senior Lecturer in Film Studies where he teaches Development of Film Language, Classical and Contemporary Film Theory and Film Appreciation. He also lectures on literature and film in the Department of English and on Spanish and Latin American Film in the Department of Spanish. Prof. Gloria Laura Lucente obtained a Laurea in Lettere Moderne at the University of Siena and a PhD in Comparative Literature at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. Her main areas of research are Film Studies, Italian Literature, and Comparative Literature with a focus on Anglo-Italian Studies. The Campus Book Festival is organised by the National Book Council and the Għaqda tal-Malti, kicking off daily at 9.00 am with back-to-back activities planned until 4.00 pm. On Friday the activities will continue until late. The Festival aims to promote literature while giving publishers and book distributors a platform to sell and promote their publications. The Festival’s programme is vast and offers a wide range of events to suit many interests, from book launches and talks to film screenings, workshops and live music. For more information about Frankenstein and the Campus Book Festival, visit the National Book Council’s website www.ktieb.org and Facebook page. A detailed programme can be downloaded by following this link. [add_posts category=campus-festival show=100] SHARE POST Related Articles Jeff VanderMeer is the special guest at the Malta Book Festival ’25 Malta Book Festival 24th June, 2025 Read More Launching the Malta Book Festival ’25 Poster! Festivals 16th June, 2025 Read More Open Call for Installation Proposals: Centrepiece of the From Illustration to Book Exhibition at the Malta Book Festival 2025 News 26th May, 2025 Read More Know Your Rights! Literary Agent Simon Trewin offers free Zoom session to stakeholders News 26th May, 2025 Read More CALL FOR APPLICATIONS: POSITION OF DIRECTOR (EXECUTIVE) WITH THE NATIONAL BOOK COUNCIL News 16th May, 2025 Read More The Malta Book Festival 2025 Will Be Writing Anew! News 14th May, 2025 Read More The 2025 Doreen Micallef National Poetry Contest is Now Open for Entries News 12th May, 2025 Read More Open Call for illustration submissions for the exhibition From Illustration to Book at the Malta Book Festival 2025 Festivals 29th April, 2025 Read More Call for Short Stories About Valletta for Comma Press’ Reading the City Series News 28th April, 2025 Read More Have Your Say: The National Book Council 2025-2030 Strategy Up for Public Consultation News 28th April, 2025 Read More view all similar news
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