Profs & Pints Denver: Frankie Goes to Hollywood

Profs and Pints Denver presents: “Frankie Goes to Hollywood,” on Frankenstein and the 200-year-old history of a monster that just keeps finding new bodies, with Andrew Scahill, an associate professor of film and media at the University of Colorado Denver whose research focuses on horror, monstrosity, and adaptation. Doors open at 5 pm and the talk begins at 6:30. Advance tickets $13.50 plus processing fees. Available at [https://events.ticketleap.com/tickets/profsandpints/denver-frankie ] *Frankenstein*, like the monster it depicts, is a story that seems designed for recombination. Time and time again it has absorbed another tale into itself and produced viable offspring. Consider *Edward Scissorhands*. That’s *Frankenstein* plus *Pinocchio*. Or *Weird Science.* That’s *Frankenstein* plus *Pygmalion*. You can think of *The Iron Giant* as a mashup of *Frankenstein* and *E.T.*, or *The Incredible Hulk* as *Frankenstein* infused with *Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde*. The creature changes with every new donor text. What makes Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein such an unusually fertile subject of adaptation? What parts of her story have to survive for us still to recognize the offspring as Frankensteinian, and what parts are fair game to be discarded, replaced, or radically transformed? Hear such questions tackled by Dr.