Transmedia Creatures - Frankenstein’s Afterlives (Paperback)

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.

General

Imprint:	Bucknell University Press,U.S.
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	October 2018
First published:	2018
Editors:	Francesca Saggini • Anna Enrichetta Soccio
Contributors:	Lidia De Michelis • Eleanor Beal • Gino Roncaglia • Claire Nally • Claudia Gualtieri • Federico Meschini • Enrico Reggiani • Diego Saglia
Dimensions:	229 x 152 x 20mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	296
ISBN-13:	978-1-68448-060-9
Categories:	Books Promotions
LSN:	1-68448-060-4
Barcode:	9781684480609

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