New Book - Remaking the Monster: Transmedia Adaptations of Frankenstein’s Creature

Remaking the Monster: Transmedia Adaptations of Frankenstein’s Creature

Alissa Burger (Author)

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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.

Table of Contents

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

Product details

Published Feb 05 2026

Format Hardback

Edition 1st

Extent 240

ISBN 9781666970258

Imprint Bloomsbury Academic

Dimensions 9 x 6 inches

Series Villains and Creatures: Critical Perspectives on Cultural Tropes

Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing

About the Author

Biography

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).