3. Frankensteinian Gods, Fembots, And The New Technological Frontier In Alex Garland’s Ex_Machina

Kapitel in diesem Buch

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Abbreviations ix
4. Introduction: Frankenstein: Presence, Process, Progress 1
5. Part I. Labs, Bots, And Punks: Transmediating Technology And Science
6. 1. Frankenstein And Science Fiction 33
7. 2. Monstrous Algorithms And The Web Of Fear: Risk, Crisis, And Spectral Finance In Robert Harris’S The Fear Index 50
8. 3. Frankensteinian Gods, Fembots, And The New Technological Frontier In Alex Garland’s Ex_Machina 69
9. Part II. Becoming Monsters: The Limits Of The Human
10. 4. Staging Steampunk Aesthetics In Frankenstein Adaptations: Mechanization, Disability, And The Body 87
11. 5. Frankenstein; Or, The Modern Prometheus In The Postcolony 101
12. 6. Four-Color Myth: Frankenstein In The Comics 119
13. Part III. The Evolution Games Of Sight And Sound
14. 7. “Uncouth And Inarticulate Sounds”: Musico-Literary Traces In Frankenstein, And Frankenstein In Art Music 143
15. 8. Enter Monsieur Le Monstre: Cultural Border-Crossing And Frankenstein In London And Paris In 1826 157
16. 9. The Theme Of The Doppelgänger In James Searle Dawley’s Frankenstein 173
17. 10. Perverting The Family: Re-Working Victor Frankenstein’s Gothic Blood-Ties In Penny Dreadful 187
18. Part IV. Monster Reflections
19. 11. The Masked Performer And “The Mane Electric”: The Lives And Multimedia Afterlives Of Margaret Atwood’s Doctor Frankenstein 201
20. 12. Young Adult Frankenstein 219
21. 13. Revivifying Frankenstein’s Myth: Historical Encounters And Dialogism In Back From The Dead: The True Sequel To Frankenstein 233
22. Acknowledgments 245
23. Bibliography 247
24. Index 271
25. About The Contributors 279