Body and text : cultural transformations in new media environments /: cultural transformations in new media environments. (2019)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: David Callahan, Anthony Barker, editors.
• Other Names: Callahan, David, 1954-; Barker, A. D (Anthony David)
• Contents: Intro; Contents; Editors and Contributors; Introduction: All that is Solid Changes into Something Else; 1 Body; 2 Text; Gender Genre Transition Translation; References; Body; Rotting, Blistered, Staggering Bodies and the Last of Ethnicity; 1 Representing Ethnic Bodies and Undead Bodies; 2 All-Purpose Zombies; 3 Survivors and Meanings; References; Scarlett Johansson: Into the Flesh and Out of the Flesh; 1 Introduction; 2 Melancholy Embodiment and Disembodiment; 3 Alien Seduction; 4 Virtual Bodies, "Real" Bodies; 5 Transformation, Enhancement, Connection; References The Tattooed Body as a Vehicle of the Self and Memory1 Tattoo Culture "Goes Pop" (Instead of an Introduction); 2 On Tattoos as Vehicles of ... ; 3 The (Tattooed) Body Is the Message, or Pictures Tell the Story; References; Flying Bodies: Skywalker and Rooftopper Youth Communities in Interaction with the Contemporary Megalopolis; 1 Rooftopping: Definition and Brief History; 2 The Main Differences Between Rooftopping, Extreme High Parkour (And Extreme Selfies); 3 Geographical Origins and Subsequent Diffusion; 4 Skywalkers' Profiles; 5 Skywalker Semiotics and Visual Signatures 6 Skywalkers' Goals and Motivations7 The Ideological Background: Providing an Alternative Political Narrative; 8 Urban Exploration; 9 Conclusions; References; Who Comes After the Woman: Becoming-Plant in Han Kang's the Vegetarian; 1 Introduction; 2 Becoming; 3 Vegetable and Resistance; 4 Eating and Consumption; 5 Understanding and Secrecy; References; Assuming Direct Control: Transformation and Identity in the Mass Effect Series; 1 Introduction; 2 Transformation I: From Protheans to Collectors; 3 Transformation II: "I Live, I Die, I Live Again!" or, the Tale of Commander Shepard; 4 Conclusion On Botched Cinematic Transformations of Video Games1 Introduction; 2 Media Convergence; 3 Narratives and Aesthetics; 4 Botched Transformations; References; Transmedia Storytelling: The Many Faces of Video Games, Fluid Narratives and Winding Seriality; 1 Serialization; 2 Taxonomizing Seriality; 3 Remaking, Franchising, Appropriating; 4 Convergence 2.0 and Beyond; References
• Publisher Details: Cham : Springer
• Publication Date: 2019
• Extent: 1 online resource (203 pages)
• Subjects: 809/.034; Literature, Modern -- 20th century -- History and criticism; Literature, Modern -- 21st century -- History and criticism; Literature, Modern; Electronic books; Criticism, interpretation, etc
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9783030251895; 3030251896
• Related ISBNs: 9783030251888
• Notes: Note: ReferencesText; Stitching, Weaving, Recreating: Frankenstein and Young Adult Fiction; 1 Patchwork Bodies; 2 Weavers and Echoes; 3 "The Miraculous Clock-Hearted Girl" (Griffin, 2016, p. 192) ; 4 Unwinds and Storked Babies; 5 "The Pre-persons"; 6 Conclusion; References; Noah Hawley's Fargo: How Far Can You Get from the Coen Brothers?; 1 Introduction; 2 The Coen Brothers and Noah Hawley; 3 Serial Fargo; 4 Inhabiting the Coens' World (View) ; 5 Pastiche, Feminism and War Trauma; 6 Self-consciousness in the Television Fargo; 7 Conclusion; References; Note: Print version record.
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