Body and Text: Cultural Transformations in New Media Environments

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Callahan, David (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Barker, Anthony (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Series: Issues in Literature and Culture,
• Subjects: Communication.; Mass media.; Sociolinguistics.; Culture.; Gender.; Media Studies.; Media Sociology.; Culture and Gender.

This book presents a collection of academic essays that take a fresh look at content and body transformation in the new media, highlighting how old hierarchies and canons of analysis must be revised. The movement of narratives and characterisations across forms, conventionally understood as adaptati...

Table of Contents:

• Introduction to Theme: Genre, Gender, Transition and Translation
• Rotting, Blistered, Staggering Bodies and The Last of Ethnicity
• Assuming Direct Control: Transformation and Identity in the Mass Effect Series
• Scarlett Johansson: Into the Flesh and Out of the Flesh
• The Tattooed Body as a Vehicle of the Self and Memory
• Flying Bodies: Skywalker and Rooftopper Youth Communities in Interaction with the Contemporary Megalopolis
• Who Comes After the Woman: Becoming Plant in Han Kang's The Vegetarian
• Stitching, Weaving, Recreating: Frankenstein and Young Adult Fiction
• Noah Hawley's Fargo: How Far can you get from the Coen Brothers?
• From Animation to Live-action: Reconstructing Maleficent
• On Botched Cinematic Transformations of Video Games
• Transmedia Storytelling: The many Faces of Videogames, Fluid Narratives and Winding Seriality.