Transmedia Creatures

Frankenstein’s Afterlives

Francesca Saggini, Anna Enrichetta Soccio (Herausgeber)

Buch | Softcover

296 Seiten

2018
Bucknell University Press,U.S. (Verlag)
978-1-68448-060-9 (ISBN)

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On the 200th anniversary of the first edition of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, Transmedia Creatures: Frankenstein's Afterlives presents studies of Frankenstein by international scholars from converging disciplines such as humanities, musicology, film studies, television studies, English and digital humanities.

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.

FRANCESCA SAGGINI is a professor of English literature at the Università della Tuscia in Viterbo, Italy. She is the author of many books, including The Gothic Novel and the Stage: Romantic Appropriations. ANNA E. SOCCIO is a professor of English literature at the Università G. d’Annunzio in Chieti, Italy. She is the author of several books, including Come leggere “Hard Times”.

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Introduction: Frankenstein: Presence, Process, Progress

Francesca Saggini

PA R T I

Labs, Bots, and Punks: Transmediating Technology and Science

1 Frankenstein and Science Fiction

Gino Roncaglia

2 Monstrous Algorithms and the Web of Fear: Risk, Crisis, and Spectral Finance in Robert Harris’s The Fear Index

Lidia De Michelis

3 Frankensteinian Gods, Fembots, and the New Technological Frontier in Alex Garland’s Ex_Machina

Eleanor Beal

PA R T I I

Becoming Monsters: The Limits of the Human

4 Staging Steampunk Aesthetics in Frankenstein Adaptations: Mechanization, Disability, and the Body

Claire Nally

5 Frankenstein; or, the Modern Prometheus in the Postcolony

Claudia Gualtieri

6 Four- Color Myth: Frankenstein in the Comics

Federico Meschini

PA RT I I I

The Evolution Games of Sight and Sound

7 “Uncouth and inarticulate sounds”: Musico- Literary Traces in Frankenstein, and Frankenstein in Art Music

Enrico Reggiani

8 Enter Monsieur le Monstre: Cultural Border- Crossing and Frankenstein in London and Paris in 1826

Diego Saglia

9 The Theme of the Doppelgänger in James Searle Dawley’s Frankenstein

Daniele Pio Buenza

10 Perverting the Family: Re- Working Victor Frankenstein’s Gothic Blood- Ties in Penny Dreadful

Ruth Heholt

PA R T I V

Monster Reflections

11 The Masked Performer and “the Mane Electric”: The Lives and Multimedia Afterlives of Margaret Atwood’s Doctor Frankenstein

Janet Larson

12 Young Adult Frankenstein

Andrew McInnes

13 Revivifying Frankenstein’s Myth: Historical Encounters and Dialogism in Back from the Dead:

The True Sequel to Frankenstein

Anna Enrichetta Soccio

Acknowledgments

Bibliography

Index

About the Contributors

Erscheinungsdatum	20.11.2018
Co-Autor	Lidia De Michelis, Eleanor Beal, Gino Roncaglia
Zusatzinfo	6
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Medienwissenschaft
ISBN-10	1-68448-060-4 / 1684480604
ISBN-13	978-1-68448-060-9 / 9781684480609
Zustand	Neuware