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Campus Alberta Collection
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table of contents
  1. Cover
  2. Acknowledgments
  3. Introduction
  4. 1. Technology, Frankenstein, and . . . Canada?
  5. 2. Refocusing Adaptation Studies
  6. 3. Frankenstein and the Reinvention of “Technology”
  7. 4. The Medium Is the Monster: McLuhan’s “Frankenpheme” of Technology
  8. 5. Monstrous Adaptations: McLuhanesque Frankensteins in Neuromancer and Videodrome
  9. 6. “Technology Implies Belligerence”: Pattern Propagation in Canadian Science Fiction
  10. 7. Is It Live or Is It Deadmau5? Pattern Amplification in Canadian Electronic Dance Music
  11. 8. Monster Mines and Pipelines: Frankenphemes of Tar Sands Technology in Canadian Popular Culture
  12. Conclusion
  13. References
  14. Index

A book in the Campus Alberta Collection, a collaboration of Athabasca University Press, the University of Alberta Press and the University of Calgary Press.

logos of Campus Alberta, Athabasca University Press, University of Alberta Press, and University of Calgary Press

Athabasca University Press
aupress.ca

The Medium Is the Monster:

Canadian Adaptations of Frankenstein and the Discourse of Technology

Mark A. McCutcheon

978-1-77199-236-7 (cl)

978-1-77199-224-4 (pb)

Public Deliberation on Climate Change:

Lessons from Alberta Climate Dialogue

Edited by Lorelei L. Hanson

978-1-77199-215-2 (pb)

Visiting With the Ancestors:

Blackfoot Shirts in Museum Spaces

Laura Peers and Alison K. Brown

978-1-77199-037-0 (pb)

Alberta Oil and the Decline of Democracy in Canada

Edited by Meenal Shrivastava and Lorna Stefanick

978-1-77199-029-5 (pb)

University of Alberta Press
uap.ualberta.ca

Keetsahnak / Our Missing and Murdered Indigenous Sisters

Kim Anderson, Maria Campbell and Christi Belcourt, Editors

978-1-77212-367-8 (pb)

Trudeau’s Tango:

Alberta Meets Pierre Elliott Trudeau, 1968–1972

Darryl Raymaker

978-1-77212-265-7 (pb)

Seeking Order in Anarchy:

Multilateralism as State Strategy

Edited by Robert W. Murray

978-1-77212-139-1 (pbk)

Upgrading Oilsands Bitumen and Heavy Oil

Murray R. Gray

978-1-77212-035-6 (hc)

University of Calgary Press
ucalgary.ca/ucpress

Water Rites:

Reimagining Water in the West

Jim Ellis, Editor

978-1-55238-997-3 (pb)

Writing Alberta:

Building on a Literary Identity

Edited by George Melnyk and Donna Coates

978-1-55238-890-7 (pb)

The Frontier of Patriotism:

Alberta and the First World War

Edited by Adriana A. Davies and Jeff Keshen

978-1-55238-834-1 (pb)

So Far and Yet So Close:

Frontier Cattle Ranching in Western Prairie Canada and the Northern Territory of Australia

Warren M. Elofson

978-1-55238-794-8 (pb)

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