Cover
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
Note on References and Images
1. Brainhood and the Cinema
The "Deficit Model" and the Agency of Film
Bs to Zs
Filmic Brains in the Neurobiological Age
2. Brains in the Pulps
Resources
Scientifiction, Textual and Visual
Advertisement and "Prophetic Insight"
Before Gernsback
Weird Tales
Stories Astounding and Amazing
3. Naked Brains and Living Heads
Brain Movies
Body Parts
The Donor Portion
Apes
Semigrafts
Living Heads
Some Filmic Allografts
Paradox of the Naked Brain
4. Personal Survival
Immortality and the Brain
Adam and Tithonus
Staying the Same, Becoming Someone Else
The Man Who Changed His Mind (1936)
Change of Mind (1969)
The Man With the Transplanted Brain (1971)
5. Frankenstein's Brains
Shelley's Novel and Frankenstein Films
The Final Touch: Frankenstein (1931)
The Universal Series
The Hammer Series
Beyond Universal and Hammer
6. Memories, Lost and Regained
A Preference for Retrograde Amnesia
Localizing Memory in the Filmic Brain
Personal Identity and the Authenticity of Memory
Erasing Memories
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004)
Dark City (1998)
7. "Imagine, They Are in the Human Mind"
Bibliography
Films
Frankenstein Films. In chronological order within each section.
Universal Pictures (USA)
Hammer Film Productions (UK)
Other Frankenstein Movies
Index.