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.
Brief description: Alissa Burger is Associate Professor of English at Culver-Stockton College, USA. She teaches courses in research, writing, and literature, specializing in gender, horror, and the Gothic. She is the author of IT, Chapters One & Two (2023), The Quest for the Dark Tower: Genre and Interconnection in the Stephen King Series (2021), Teaching Stephen King: Horror, The Supernatural, and New Approaches to Literature (2016) and The Wizard of Oz as American Myth: A Critical Study of Six Versions of the Story, 1900-2007(2012).
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"Much like the Creature at its heart, this study is assembled from heterogenous sources. Cinema, graphic narratives, board games and video games, among other popular culture materials, all furnish the author with the necessary tools to trace the complex evolution and adaptational history of an archetypal monster whose afterlives have proven as colourful and significant as Mary Shelley's original novel. Remaking the Monster should appeal to transmedia and Gothic researchers." --Xavier Aldana Reyes, Reader in English Literature and Film, Manchester Metropolitan University, UK
"Consistently insightful and entertaining, Alissa Burger's wide-ranging study makes clear that Frankenstein's creature has always been more than just the sum of its parts. Through its careful considerations of literature, film, television, comics, and gaming, Remaking the Monster shows us instead that each iteration of Shelley's malleable monster offers us a mirror into our shifting anxieties and desires, even as it insistently puts to us the question of what it means to be human." --Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock, Professor of English, Central Michigan University, USA