The Frankenstein Meme: Penny Dreadful and The Frankenstein Chronicles as Adaptations

Braid, Barbara

doi:10.1515/culture-2017-0021

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“…The monster appearing in the reduced form of a meme is decoded by the audience with relevant meaning that suits a certain time and certain world conditions. A meme preserving Frankenstein's creature in a new context might not be random, but a fulfillment of a certain "cultural pressure" of the period (Braid, 2017).…”

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Constructing a metadata model to capture the deconstruction of literary characters: Remediation of evil

Ismail

2021

Cogent Arts & Humanities

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This study explores the prospects of constructing a metadata Omeka model to capture the transformation of four classic evil characters through various media adaptations. The scope encompasses ancient literary characters as they evolve through a "remediation" model of analysis in both the literary sense of the term and the computational one. Within this frame, Bolter and Grusin's theory of remediation is utilized to explain the digital proliferation as an evolution of various forms of media that derive from one another both old and new. The research question becomes whether the concept of remediation can account for linking various adaptations of a work of literature through various media modes ranging from oral folktales, written texts, paintings, movies, and social media Memes. The four characters are The Cyclops, Dracula, Frankenstein's Monster, and the devil from Dr. Faustus. This is achieved by the machine readability in the embedded Omeka structure of the collection allowing for its reuse by both researchers and students. The dynamics of a poststructuralist shift of power where media adaptations within audience interaction undermine the traditional media institutions that have for so long dominated the media and information industries. The

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Constructing a metadata model to capture the deconstruction of literary characters: Remediation of evil

Ismail

2021

Cogent Arts & Humanities

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“…de modifications (Braid, 2017). Tous ces personnages transfictionnels cohabitent, dans un Londres victorien alternatif, avec des personnages originaux, créés par la série.…”

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L'adaptation face à la sérialité

Neau¹

2022

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Concurrencée, dans le domaine critique, par des termes comme « transmédialité » et « intermédialité », ou bien abordée sous les angles de la reprise et de la réécriture qui mettent moins l’accent sur la notion de médium que sur le geste même de la répétition d’un même « univers », l’adaptation semble être devenu un horizon théorique du passé. Comme le souligne Sarah Cardwell (2018), à force d’inclure de multiples formes de reprises, les Adaptation studies en arrivent à se passer, paradoxalement, de l’adaptation, et à se trouver ainsi diluées dans un ensemble plus vaste, qu’on pourrait appeler Intertextual studies. Le présent article vise à montrer que la théorie de l’adaptation gagne à être articulée en lien avec ce qui nourrit, d’une manière générale, la culture populaire : la sérialité. Quelques exemples de séries télévisées contemporaines de type « néo-victorien » ainsi qu’un examen métacritique des catégories de « monde » et « univers » fictionnels montreront que le brouillage entre adaptation et intertextualité est aussi l’occasion de mettre en œuvre des approches théoriques de l’adaptation plus ouvertes, qui tiennent compte de l’expansion permanente des formes fictionnelles contemporaines.

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“…Mary Shelley's creation has endured the passing of time and now is an archetypal figure in popular culture (Friedman & Kavey, 2016). It has appeared in numerous movies, TV series and comics (Braid, 2017), and it has inspired other literary works. In our Internet era, it is always present across "memes" and other multimedia elements (Rollins, 2018).…”

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Tropicalizing Frankenstein in Latin America. A tale about promising technologies and apocalyptic robots

Plascencia

2020

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Frankenstein is not an exclusive character belonging to the realm of the Gothic narrative, but a vivid element that has evolved and adapted to diverse social contexts and geographies. Mary Shelley's work has endured the passing of time and now is a symbol of the popular culture. In this paper, I look to understand Mary Shelley's Frankenstein influence on people's attitudes regarding technology and science, particularly artificial intelligence and robots. How the negative visions and fears about the misuse of science to break traditional moral and religious boundaries are still present in popular culture. Fieldwork will be focused on reviewing several Latin American newspapers and magazine articles in Spanish and Portuguese published on the Internet. As final outcomes will show, Mary Shelley's Frankenstein still continues influencing people's imagination about science and technology, even in technically less developed regions.

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The Frankenstein Meme: Penny Dreadful and The Frankenstein Chronicles as Adaptations

Cited by 5 publications

References 11 publications

Constructing a metadata model to capture the deconstruction of literary characters: Remediation of evil

Constructing a metadata model to capture the deconstruction of literary characters: Remediation of evil

L'adaptation face à la sérialité

Tropicalizing Frankenstein in Latin America. A tale about promising technologies and apocalyptic robots

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