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Conclusion: Generation X Remixed: A Conversation
The process of writing this book was ridden with resistance. The linearity of the word kept on clashing against the excess and synchronicity of Generation X texts. To make sense of this nonsense, my pen wanted...
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Generation MTV
Around the same time that Robert Capa published his photographs of Generation X, John Clellon Holmes wrote an essay titled “This Is the Beat Generation” (1952) in which he quoted a conversation with Jack Keroua.....
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From Generation X to the Mutantes
If, as literary critics, we venture into the genetic code, as does Katherine Hayles in How We Became Posthuman, we learn that mutation “normally occurs when some random event (for example, a burst of radiation or...
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Introduction: Generation X: Identity, Technology, and Storytelling
When a new cast of Spanish authors appeared on the market in the early 1990s, young readers flocked to bookstores. Ray Loriga, the rock and roll novelist. Benjamín Prado, the grunge author. José Ángel Mañas, the
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Punked Out and Smelling Like Afterpop
“It’s hard to imagine a modern Europe and America not transformed by punk” (5). These words by Roger Sabin in his edited volume Punk Rock: So What?: The Cultural Legacy of Punk, amplify the cultural and political...
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From MTV to the Real World of Generation X Fiction
In February 2010, MTV changed its famous logo after twenty-nine years. The company kept the three-dimensional letter “M” and its signature “tv,” but removed the “Music Television” tag line. The black “M” gained.....
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Generation X and the Mutantes, A Mash-Up
In Collective Intelligence (1997), Pierre Lévy argues for the creation of a new (potentially collective) knowledge space, or cosmopedia, the result of new computer technologies that provide, “a dynamic and intera...
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Tales of Generation X
Scholarship on Spanish Generation X literature has been hampered by the absence of in-depth studies on the development of the “Generation X” label. Apart from Paul Begin’s excellent analysis on the evolution of.....
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Before the Afterlife
I noted in the Introduction that the analysis of Wuthering Heights provided in this book is determined by the novel’s afterlife. As such, this chapter focuses on issues and themes that are significantly reworked ...
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Moving Backward, Looking Forward
In comparison to the well-known 1939 film version of Wuthering Heights, Jacques Rivette’s French adaptation of the novel, Hurlevent (1985),1 is perhaps only known to those film aficionados dedicated to the study ...
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Catherine and Heathcliff for the Y Generation
On the 14th of September 2003, MTV’s adaptation of Wuthering Heights aired for the first time on its movie channel. Although not released in cinemas, MTV’s Wuthering Heights undoubtedly reached a wide audience du...
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Afterword
The five primary adaptations of Wuthering Heights I have examined in detail have contributed significantly to the afterlife of the novel. What I have found particularly striking when examining these adaptations i...
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Introduction
This book examines what happens to classic literature when it becomes a cultural legacy through the process of screen adaptation. The primary focus of this examination is Emily Brontë’s famous 1847 novel, Wutheri...
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The Cinema of Spectacle
The 1939 film adaptation of Wuthering Heights, directed by William Wyler, produced by Samuel Goldwyn and starring Merle Oberon as Catherine and Laurence Olivier as Heathcliff, can be said to have initiated the sc...
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Wuthering Heights in the 1990s
If Rivette’s Hurlevent is a subdued and ascetic film, predicated on the premise of demythologisation, Peter Kosminsky’s 1992 film adaptation of Wuthering Heights is, conversely, an ambitious work in its scope and...
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Critical Legacies and Contemporary Audiences
In 2009, on the back of a number of Jane Austen adaptations, ITV premiered its most recent screen adaptation of Wuthering Heights. This two-part television serial was first broadcast in January of 2009 in the US,...
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