CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2017
| Author | Domingo, Rosallia Mendoza |
|---|---|
| Title | Feminist critique of posthuman embodiment in Mamoru Oshii's film Ghost in the Shell |
| Summary | This thesis mainly explores the posthuman narrative of Mamoru Oshii’s film Ghost in the Shell as it depicts a posthuman embodiment that addresses a complex and shifting relationship between body and technology. Considering how cyborg feminists and posthumanists find the technological particularly productive in redeploying embodiment within a gendered context, I am particularly interested in exploring the deployment of posthuman bodies in the film and the extent to which technology in the (re)formulation of subjectivity has been bound up with gender. The portrayals of cyborg bodies throughout the film, therefore, provide a valuable site of exploring how a gendered subject specifically emerges within the general corpus of cyborg texts, and how the gender performativity that the subject executes offers a queer imaginary—one that potentially undermines and denaturalizes heteronormativity. In this regard, I argue, correspondingly, that the ways in which the film uses the cyborg figure to articulate the discursive constitution of the posthuman body offers significant implications for the theorization of the posthuman and human that is in dialogue with the questions of gender. |
| Supervisor | Yoon, Hyaesin |
| Department | Gender Studies MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2017/domingo_rosallia.pdf |
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