Frankenstein: Afterlives – Flesh for Frankenstein

Bliss Cua Lim is Associate Professor of Film and Media Studies at the University of California, Irvine. She is the author of Translating Time: Cinema, the Fantastic and Temporal Critique (Duke University Press, 2009; Ateneo de Manila University Press, 2011). She is a member of the Editorial Collective of the journal Camera Obscura: Feminism, Culture, and Media Studies, published by Duke University Press, and serves on the Advisory Board of Plaridel: A Philippine Journal of Communication, Media and Society published by the University of the Philippines College of Mass Communication. Her research and teaching center on cinematic and queer temporality, Philippine cinema, postcolonial feminist theory, and transnational horror and the fantastic. Her next book, tentatively titled The Archival Afterlives of Philippine Cinema,  analyzes the histories of state and private archival efforts as well as the tenacious audiovisual archival advocacy that arose in response to various archival crises. Prof. Lim envisions another future book project on the mainstreaming, border-crossing movements of queer sensibilities in Philippine film and media: from folklore to print to film; from arthouse independent cinema to wide release in commercial theaters; and from domestic circuits to international film festivals.

Rachael Ball is a PhD student in the Film and Media Studies department at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Her current project centers around bodily special effects technologies broadly conceived, and her research interests include transnational genre film, in particular global exploitation and horror, as well as conspiracy and true crime media.