Transmedia Creatures : : Frankenstein’s Afterlives / / ed. by Francesca Saggini, Anna Enrichetta Soccio.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Rutgers University Press Complete eBook-Package 2018
• MitwirkendeR: Beal, Eleanor,; Buenza, Daniele Pio,; De Michelis, Lidia,; Gualtieri, Claudia,; Heholt, Ruth,; Larson, Janet,; McInnes, Andrew,; Meschini, Federico,; Nally, Claire,; Reggiani, Enrico,; Roncaglia, Gino,; Saggini, Francesca,; Saglia, Diego,; Soccio, Anna Enrichetta,
• TeilnehmendeR: Beal, Eleanor.; Buenza, Daniele Pio.; Gualtieri, Claudia.; Heholt, Ruth.; Larson, Janet.; McInnes, Andrew.; Meschini, Federico.; Michelis, Lidia De.; Nally, Claire.; Reggiani, Enrico.; Roncaglia, Gino.; Saglia, Diego.
• HerausgeberIn: Saggini, Francesca,; Soccio, Anna Enrichetta,
• Place / Publishing House: Lewisburg, PA : : Bucknell University Press, , [2018]; ©2018
• Year of Publication: 2018
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (296 p.) :; 6

On the 200th anniversary of the first edition of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, Transmedia Creatures presents studies of Frankenstein by international scholars from converging disciplines such as humanities, musicology, film studies, television studies, English and digital humanities. These innovative contributions investigate the afterlives of a novel taught in a disparate array of courses - Frankenstein disturbs and transcends boundaries, be they political, ethical, theological, aesthetic, and not least of media, ensuring its vibrant presence in contemporary popular culture. Transmedia Creatures highlights how cultural content is redistributed through multiple media, forms and modes of production (including user-generated ones from “below”) that often appear synchronously and dismantle and renew established readings of the text, while at the same time incorporating and revitalizing aspects that have always been central to it. The authors engage with concepts, value systems and aesthetic-moral categories—among them the family, horror, monstrosity, diversity, education, risk, technology, the body—from a variety of contemporary approaches and highly original perspectives, which yields new connections. Ultimately, Frankenstein, as evidenced by this collection, is paradoxically enriched by the heteroglossia of preconceptions, misreadings, and overreadings that attend it, and that reveal the complex interweaving of perceptions and responses it generates. Published by Bucknell University Press. Distributed worldwide by Rutgers University Press.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Abbreviations -- Introduction: Frankenstein: Presence, Process, Progress -- Part I. Labs, Bots, And Punks: Transmediating Technology And Science -- 1. Frankenstein And Science Fiction -- 2. Monstrous Algorithms And The Web Of Fear: Risk, Crisis, And Spectral Finance In Robert Harris’S The Fear Index -- 3. Frankensteinian Gods, Fembots, And The New Technological Frontier In Alex Garland’s Ex_Machina -- Part II. Becoming Monsters: The Limits Of The Human -- 4. Staging Steampunk Aesthetics In Frankenstein Adaptations: Mechanization, Disability, And The Body -- 5. Frankenstein; Or, The Modern Prometheus In The Postcolony -- 6. Four-Color Myth: Frankenstein In The Comics -- Part III. The Evolution Games Of Sight And Sound -- 7. “Uncouth And Inarticulate Sounds”: Musico-Literary Traces In Frankenstein, And Frankenstein In Art Music -- 8. Enter Monsieur Le Monstre: Cultural Border-Crossing And Frankenstein In London And Paris In 1826 -- 9. The Theme Of The Doppelgänger In James Searle Dawley’s Frankenstein -- 10. Perverting The Family: Re-Working Victor Frankenstein’s Gothic Blood-Ties In Penny Dreadful -- Part IV. Monster Reflections -- 11. The Masked Performer And “The Mane Electric”: The Lives And Multimedia Afterlives Of Margaret Atwood’s Doctor Frankenstein -- 12. Young Adult Frankenstein -- 13. Revivifying Frankenstein’s Myth: Historical Encounters And Dialogism In Back From The Dead: The True Sequel To Frankenstein -- Acknowledgments -- Bibliography -- Index -- About The Contributors