Body and Text: Cultural Transformations in New Media Environments

Introduction to Theme: Genre, Gender, Transition and Translation.- Rotting, Blistered, Staggering Bodies and The Last of Ethnicity.- Assuming Direct Control: Transformation and Identity in the Mass Effect Series.- Scarlett Johansson: Into the Flesh and Out of the Flesh.- The Tattooed Body as a Vehicle of the Self and Memory.- Flying Bodies: Skywalker and Rooftopper Youth Communities in Interaction with the Contemporary Megalopolis.- Who Comes After the Woman: Becoming Plant in Han Kang's The Vegetarian.- Stitching, Weaving, Recreating: Frankenstein and Young Adult Fiction.- Noah Hawley's Fargo: How Far can you get from the Coen Brothers?.- From Animation to Live-action: Reconstructing Maleficent.- On Botched Cinematic Transformations of Video Games.- Transmedia Storytelling: The many Faces of Videogames, Fluid Narratives and Winding Seriality.