Meeting the Monster -- The Making of the Bride -- Mary Tells a Story -- The Doctor and the Devil -- The Monster Speaks! -- Two Brides for Two Brothers -- Views of the Bride -- Creation Myths: Light and Dust -- Another Bride Stripped Bare by Her Bachelors, Even
Summary
Manguel gives a detailed and highly sensitive account of the film's felicities of inventive film-making. He also traces the literary roots of the Frankenstein myth, the creation of a living being by a man usurping the powers of a jealous God. And he finds echoes in the work of modern artists such as Max Ernst and Marcel Duchamp of the Bride as a kind of femme fatale, monstrous and threatening
