Inbunden, Engelska, 2026

Body Swap Film

Av Wyatt Moss-Wellington, Kim Wilkins, Wyatt Moss-Wellington, Kim Wilkins

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An enduring yet underexamined tradition in popular cinema, body swap narratives have captivated audiences across cultures and genres. This volume offers the first study of the ‘body swap' film, examining notable examples such as the Freaky Friday films alongside comedies, horrors, and hybrid forms shaped by bodily transformation. Extending beyond cinema, Contributors trace the trope's evolution across television, videogames, digital platforms, online identity practices, and avatar relationships. Grounded in film studies yet interdisciplinary in scope, the collection engages gender theory, race theory, trans scholarship, transnational media studies, and philosophy to illuminate how body swapping reshapes understandings of identity, embodiment, and power in global media culture.

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Utgivningsdatum: 2026-11-15
Mått: 152 x 229 x 22 mm
Vikt: 624 g
Format: Inbunden
Språk: Engelska
Antal sidor: 324
Förlag: Berghahn Books
ISBN: 9781836956709

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Wyatt Moss-Wellington is Senior Lecturer in Digital Storytelling at the University of New England. He is the author of Cognitive Film and Media Ethics (Oxford UP, 2021), Narrative Humanism: Kindness and Complexity in Fiction and Film (Edinburgh UP, 2019), and co-editor of Refocus: The Films of Spike Jonze (Edinburgh UP, 2019).

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A welcome, timely, and wide-ranging collection of essays on the body swap film. The volume is well-researched and considers films not only from Hollywood, where the body swap trope is principally derived, but in other global cinemas. In addition, the volume considers the digital body swap enabled by meme cultures, and the pleasures of player’s embodiment of video game avatars. It revisits some mainstays of the body swap trope, such as Freaky Friday, and combines this with less well-trodden examples. This is a well-written, engaging and interdisciplinary account of the body swap film. Frances Smith, University of Sussex

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