The Frankenstein method: remaking, recycling, and reimagining in Twenty-First Century Hollywood cinema

In so doing, the films produced using this method suggest something ‘new’ and innovative, where the familiar is refashioned and updated through a challenging of traditional Hollywood storytelling practices.

This reimagining and rewriting of orthodox conventions often align with socially progressive discourses, in that familiar narratives are reworked in ways that challenge traditional representations and hierarchies, and in turn undermine existing social hegemonies.<br><br>Sustained analysis of case-studies displaying these tendencies reveals a far more complex and multifaceted significance of the Frankenstein Method, where attempts to undermine existing hegemonies are often replaced by a postmodern superficiality grounded in nostalgia, ahistoricity, and liminality; this represents an inevitable submission to the demands of late capitalism.