Год выпуска: 2011 Автор: Munire Bozdemir Издательство: LAP Lambert Academic Publishing Страниц: 216 ISBN: 9783846513231
Описание
Is metamorphosing about getting adapted to a new social system or is it a reaction to the social and political changes that are imposed on the body? How does the gradual metal-morphing of the body as it is reflected on the screen deal with the issues of freedom, bodily ambiguation, boundary breaking that are associated with becoming post-human? What role can animation claim in being prosthesis for human body and/or mind or the externalization of the mind? In this study these questions are tried to be answered through a case study that involves the comparison of the metamorphosing post/human bodies as presented via different media of live action, animation and live-action and animation hybrids in The Matrix Trilogy (1999, 2003) and The Animatrix (2003) and through a focus group study involving three separate groups of mine-workers, housewives and high school students who were asked to interpret selected sequences from The Matrix Trilogy and The Animatrix with the aim of revealing...
