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Transmedia creatures : Frankenstein's afterlives /

"The cultural value of a text, not least as a form of transferable and adaptable cultural capital capable of surviving on its own, has become a central concern for a wide range of teachers and researchers working in the field of adaptation studies, a methodological and cultural domain whose div...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor Corporativo: Bucknell University Press
Otros Autores: Saggini, Francesca (Editor ), Soccio, Anna Enrichetta (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Lewisburg, Pennsylvania : Bucknell University Press, [2018]
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction. Frankenstein: presence, process, progress / Francesca Saggini.
  • Part I. Labs, bots, and punks: transmediating technology and science. Frankenstein and science fiction / Gino Roncaglia
  • Monstrous algorithms and the web of fear: risk, crisis, and spectral finance in Robert Harris's The Fear Index / Lidia De Michelis
  • Frankensteinian gods, fembots, and the new technological frontier in Alex Garland's Ex_Machina / Eleanor Beal.
  • Part II. Becoming monsters: The limits of the human. Staging steampunk aesthetics in Frankenstein adaptations: mechanization, disability, and the body / Claire Nally
  • Frankenstein; or, the Modern Prometheus in the postcolony / Claudia Gualtieri
  • Four-color myth: Frankenstein in the comics / Federico Meschini.
  • Part III. Evolution games of sight and sound. "Uncouth and inarticulate sounds": Musico-literary traces in Frankenstein, and Frankenstein in art music / Enrico Reggiani
  • Enter Monsieur le Monstre: cultural border-crossing and Frankenstein in London and Paris in 1826 / Diego Saglia
  • The theme of the doppelganger in James Searle Dawley's Frankenstein / Daniele Pio Buenza
  • Perverting the family: re-working Victor Frankenstein's gothic blood-Ties in Penny Dreadful / Ruth Heholt.
  • Part IV. Monster reflections. The masked performer and "the mane electric": the lives and multimedia afterlives of Margaret Atwood's Doctor Frankenstein / Janet Larson
  • Young adult Frankenstein / Andrew McInnes
  • Revivifying Frankenstein's myth: historical encounters and dialogism in back from the dead: the true sequel to Frankenstein / Anna Enrichetta Soccio.