Body swapping
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Name (Hebrew)
החלפת גוף
Name (Latin)
Body swapping
Name (Arabic)
تبادل الأجساد
Other forms of name
Body switching
Bodyswapping
Bodyswitching
Mind swapping
Swapping, Body
Swapping, Mind
Switching, Body
See Also From tracing topical name
Mind and body
MARC
MARC
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Q4936971
Library of congress:
sh2016002492
Sources of Information
- Freaky Friday (Motion picture : 2003). Freaky Friday, 2003(summary note: A mother and her daughter are always fighting and screaming at each other. Each thinks that the other has it so easy. Then, thanks to a magical fortune cookie, they switch personalities and bodies and discover each other's problems and complications. And they end up gaining a little respect for each other's point of view. But they need to be changed back by Saturday, because the mother is getting married!)
- Wikipedia, Nov. 14, 2018:Body swap (body swap; a storytelling device seen in a variety of science and supernatural fiction, in which two people (or beings) exchange minds and end up in each other's bodies; switches can be caused by magic items such as amulets, heartfelt wishes, or just strange quirks of the universe; switches accomplished by technology are the fare of mad scientists)
- YourDictionary.com, Nov. 14, 2018(bodyswap (plural bodyswaps): (fiction) The act or event of two people or other thinking creatures exchanging minds (by magic, technology, or other means), so that each one ends up in the physical body of the other.)
- Burnett, D. Body swapping: the science behind the switch, in The guardian, 2 Apr. 2014, viewed online Nov. 14, 2018(familiar trope in fiction, the body swap, where a character finds his or herself inhabiting a completely different body; sometimes it's an individual ending up in an unfamiliar form, other times it's two people known to each other who somehow end up swapping bodies; most fictional body swaps don't invoke brain transplants, it's more a swapping of minds)
- 6 staples of sci-fi and fantasy television, via WWW, Nov. 14, 2018(body swapping; the bodyswap; a trope)
- TV tropes website, Nov. 14, 2018("Freaky Friday" Flip. The most benign subtrope of Body Snatcher: two or more characters swap bodies (or, equally, swap minds) by some form of magic or Applied Phlebotinum; Body Switch Movie: The brain of one character somehow finds itself in the body of another; Compare Personality Swap, when the characters' personalities are swapped but their minds stay where they are meant to be)
- Fanlore wiki, Nov. 14, 2018:Bodyswap (Bodyswap is a plot device or story trope involving two (or more) characters switching their physical bodies by magical, scientific, mystical or unspecified means. The device is used in canon and fanfiction alike; Synonyms: bodyswitch, mindswap; See also: bodysharing; Bodysharing is a plot device or trope where two (or more) people's minds share the same body)
- Gardner, M. The whys of a philosophical scrivener, 1999, via Google books, viewed Nov. 14, 2018:p. 460 ("Mindswaps," in which bodies exchange minds (or vice versa), have been so fully exploited in science fiction that it is hard to invent a basic plot that hasn't been used)
- About mind swaps and voice acting, via theromancescrooge blog, viewed Nov. 14, 2018(the mindswap trope; the mind swap is a fairly well-known, go-to plot device for cartoons. Two characters swap minds, or souls, after encountering a machine designed for that specific effect, a magic spell, or in the case of Gravity Falls, a magic static-cling carpet)
- Almog, J. What am I? : Descartes and the mind-body problem, 2005, via Google books, viewed Nov. 14, 2018:p. 103 ("mind-swapping" (or "body-swapping"))
- Google search, Nov. 14, 2018(130,000 results for "body swaps"; 266,000 results for "body swapping"; 276,000 results for "body switches"; 128,000 results for "body switching"; 2,810 results for "mindswapping"; 43,700 results for "mind swapping"; 678 results for "mindswaps"; 6,610 results for "mind swaps")