Remaking the Monster
Transmedia Adaptations of Frankenstein's Creature
1st Edition
Published on 5. February 2026
240 pages
978-1-9787-6362-3 (ISBN)
Description
In Remaking the Monster, Alissa Burger adopts an interdisciplinary approach to examine the continued influence of Frankenstein's Creature on popular culture, demonstrating through close readings the necessity of reconsidering its role and meaning as it has changed over time.
Since the Creature's introduction to the horror genre's canon, proliferating and evolving for over a century across a variety of media formats and genres, Burger posits that each new iteration of its appearance and impact encourages audiences to (re)consider critical questions about society and about ourselves. What are we capable of-both good and bad? What care, if any, do we owe to one another? And how might a monstrous appearance belie a deeper truth?
Ultimately, Burger argues, wherever and however the Creature appears, part of its innate function-and perhaps, the key to its perennial resonance with audiences-is found in the approachable opportunity to engage with daunting concepts of life and death, choice, agency, and, above all, what it means to be human.
Since the Creature's introduction to the horror genre's canon, proliferating and evolving for over a century across a variety of media formats and genres, Burger posits that each new iteration of its appearance and impact encourages audiences to (re)consider critical questions about society and about ourselves. What are we capable of-both good and bad? What care, if any, do we owe to one another? And how might a monstrous appearance belie a deeper truth?
Ultimately, Burger argues, wherever and however the Creature appears, part of its innate function-and perhaps, the key to its perennial resonance with audiences-is found in the approachable opportunity to engage with daunting concepts of life and death, choice, agency, and, above all, what it means to be human.
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Series
Edition
1. Auflage
Language
English
Place of publication
United States
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Target group
Professional and scholarly
ISBN-13
978-1-9787-6362-3 (9781978763623)
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Schweitzer Classification
Other editions
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Book
approx. 04/2026
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
€123.00
Not yet published
Person
Alissa Burger is Associate Professor of English at Culver-Stockton College, USA.
Content
Introduction
PART I: THEMES
1. Boris Karloff as the Creature
2. Encountering the Creature
3. A Community of Monsters
4. Gothic Prestige
5. The Desirable Creature
PART II: FORMATS
6. New Visions of the Creature in Graphic Narratives
7. The Animated Creature
8. Board Games
9. Video Games
10. Creating the Creature
Conclusion
About the Author
Index
PART I: THEMES
1. Boris Karloff as the Creature
2. Encountering the Creature
3. A Community of Monsters
4. Gothic Prestige
5. The Desirable Creature
PART II: FORMATS
6. New Visions of the Creature in Graphic Narratives
7. The Animated Creature
8. Board Games
9. Video Games
10. Creating the Creature
Conclusion
About the Author
Index
