Transmediality operates in Anthony Bourdain’s media afterlife in a moment of combined technological augmentation, parasocial attachment, and celebrity visibility. Posthumous biographical works about Bourdain continue to emerge across film, literature, and digital media. By examining such biographical works as intertextual co-conspirators in creating Bourdain’s current media afterlife, we can see how “the icon,” a posthumous, intertextual Anthony Bourdain builds on Bourdain’s trademark blend of synthetic and sincere engagement with media to generate newly complex modes of consumption and creation for fans, media industries, and the Bourdain brand writ large.
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