El Mito de Frankenstein en el cine: transmediación y ciencia ficción (Blade Runner y 2049)

Pedro Javier Pardo García

doi:10.24310/Trasvasestlc.vi2.9547

Authors

Pedro Javier Pardo García a:1:{s:5:"es_ES";s:24:"Universidad de Salamanca";} Spain

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.24310/Trasvasestlc.vi2.9547

Keywords:

transwriting, transtextuality, architext, rewriting, transfiction, posthumanity, Frankestein, Blade Runner, 2049

Abstract

This essay explores the presence of Frankenstein in film through a theoretical frame based on the notions of transtextuality and transwriting. The first part is a survey of the series of transmediations which have turned the novel into a myth and entails a double aim: in the first place, to illustrate the efficiency of the theoretical frame and, in the second place, to reach a definition of the Frankensteinian myth, which is anchored in the dialectics between creator and creature, articulated in three narrative motifs and expressed in three mythemes. The second part probes the presence of this paradigm in science fiction and, firstly, it distinguishes between myth and genre (which leaves room for different degrees in this presence), so then it focuses on the highest degree (where the dialectics of myth can be detected), which is illustrated by a detailed analysis of Blade Runner and 2049.

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