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Obsession: Dysmorphia and Disfigurement
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- Title: Obsession: Dysmorphia and Disfigurement: Machine-Body Transgression in Blade Runner and Ghost in the Shell
- Author(s): Gordon Reynolds
- Publisher: Common Ground Research Networks
- Collection: Common Ground Research Networks
- Series: New Directions in the Humanities
- Journal Title: The International Journal of the Humanities: Annual Review
- Keywords: Film, Theory, Science Fiction, Literature, Transgression, Body
- Volume: 4
- Issue: 5
- Date: January 02, 2007
- ISSN: 1447-9508 (Print)
- ISSN: 1447-9559 (Online)
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.18848/1447-9508/CGP/v04i05/41909
- Citation: Reynolds, Gordon . 2007. "Obsession: Dysmorphia and Disfigurement: Machine-Body Transgression in Blade Runner and Ghost in the Shell." The International Journal of the Humanities: Annual Review 4 (5): 81-86. doi:10.18848/1447-9508/CGP/v04i05/41909.
- Extent: 6 pages
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Abstract
The paper will explore the organic/mechanical dichotomy that exists between body and machine and how its transgression functions in the tropology of contemporary science fiction.
