Contributor
Saggini, Francesca, editor of compilation.
ImprintLewisburg, Pennsylvania : Bucknell University Press, [2019]
Descriptionix, 283 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm
Note: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 doppelgänger 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.
Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references (pages 247-269) and index.
Note:"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 diverse interdisciplinary and transmedial imprint is so notably present in contemporary culture. In line with the concept of convergence theorized by Henry Jenkins, which posits an expansive and collaborative pattern of textuality, it is generally accepted that a text is dispersed/regenerates diachronically and synchronically on multiple platforms and across different users. In keeping with such theoretical and methodological premises, it seems appropriate, on the anniversary of the first edition of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus (1818), to present a collection of essays on Frankenstein by international scholars from converging disciplines such as humanities, musicology, film studies, television studies, media studies, English and digital humanities. Transmedia Creatures: Frankenstein's Afterlives 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 are able to dismantle and renew established readings of the text, while at the same time incorporating and revitalizing aspects that have always been central to it. Ultimately, Frankenstein, as evidenced by this collection, is paradoxically enriched by the heteroglossia of preconceptions/misreadings/overreadings that attend it, and that reveal the complex interweaving of perceptions and responses it generates."-- Provided by publisher.
