| Description |
1 online resource : illustrations |
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Campus Alberta collection |
| Contents |
Cover Page; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1. Technology, Frankenstein, and ... Canada?; 2. Refocusing Adaptation Studies; 3. Frankenstein and the Reinvention of "Technology"; 4. The Medium Is the Monster: McLuhan's "Frankenpheme" of Technology; 5. Monstrous Adaptations: McLuhanesque Frankensteins in Neuromancer and Videodrome; 6. "Technology Implies Belligerence": Pattern Propagation in Canadian Science Fiction; 7. Is It Live or Is It Deadmau5? Pattern Amplification in Canadian Electronic Dance Music |
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8. Monster Mines and Pipelines: Frankenphemes of Tar Sands Technology in Canadian Popular CultureConclusion; References; Index |
| Summary |
"Technology, a word that emerged historically first to denote the study of any art or technique, has come, in modernity, to describe advanced machines, industrial systems, and media. McCutcheon argues that it is Mary Shelley's 1818 novel Frankenstein that effectively reinvented the meaning of the word for modern English. It was then Marshall McLuhan's media theory and its adaptations in Canadian popular culture that popularized, even globalized, a Frankensteinian sense of technology. The Medium Is the Monster shows how we cannot talk about technology-that human-made monstrosity-today without conjuring Frankenstein, thanks in large part to its Canadian adaptations by pop culture icons such as David Cronenberg, William Gibson, Margaret Atwood, and Deadmau5. In the unexpected connections illustrated by The Medium Is the Monster, McCutcheon brings a fresh approach to studying adaptations, popular culture, and technology."-- Provided by publisher |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from PDF version (Library and Archives Canada Electronic Collection, viewed April 1, 2021) |
| Subject |
Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft, 1797-1851 -- Adaptations
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Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft, 1797-1851 -- Influence
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Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft, 1797-1851. Frankenstein.
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McLuhan, Marshall, 1911-1980 -- Adaptations
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McLuhan, Marshall, 1911-1980 -- Influence
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McLuhan, Marshall, 1911-1980 fast |
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Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft, 1797-1851 fast |
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Frankenstein (Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft) fast |
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Technology in popular culture.
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Technology in popular culture -- Canada
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Technology in literature.
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Technology and civilization.
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Technology and civilization in literature.
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
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Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)
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Technology and civilization
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Technology and civilization in literature
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Technology in literature
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Technology in popular culture
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Canada
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books
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Adaptations
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Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2019394423 |
| ISBN |
9781771992251 |
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1771992255 |
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9781771992268 |
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1771992263 |
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