Ghost in the Shell, the (Im)possibility of the Posthuman: Comparing Japanese Anime (1995) to Hollywood Film (2017)

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10.2991/978-2-38476-186-9_27How to use a DOI?

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Ghost in the Shell; Convergence; Posthuman; Anime; Hollywood

Abstract

This article deals with the theme of the (im)possibility of the posthuman by analyzing two forms of Ghost in the Shell: the 1995 Japanese anime and the 2017 Hollywood film. Although both works are based on the same source material, Masamune Shirow’s 1989 manga, many fans were deeply disappointed by the live-action movie that came out almost 20 years later. These polarizing reviews of the anime and the movie should be understood in the context of the discourse of the postmodern and the posthuman. For this purpose, this article attempts to explore whether the SF imagination of twentieth-century Japan, as it moved to twenty-first-century Hollywood, has returned to the identity logic of the modern subject.

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Te-Gyung Kim
PY  - 2024
DA  - 2024/01/11
TI  - Ghost in the Shell, the (Im)possibility of the Posthuman: Comparing Japanese Anime (1995) to Hollywood Film (2017)
BT  - Proceedings of the Critical Island Studies 2023 Conference (CISC 2023)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 259
EP  - 262
SN  - 2352-5398
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