Body and Text: Cultural Transformations in New Media Environments

In: Issues in Literature and Culture

In: Springer eBooks

In: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies

Abstract

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