RT Journal Article
T1 Of Mutants and Monsters:  A Posthuman Study of  Verhoeven’s and Wiseman’s  Total Recall
A1 Domínguez García, Beatriz
AB The abuse and violence exerted on the posthuman bodies of fiction is born from their resistance to the postulates of the most traditional humanism. The diachronic vision of the figure of the mutant, as a dehumanized and isolated body from the transhumanist perspective, anticipates the debates generated in the 21st century about the survival of hierarchy in the typification of bodies into ‘more or less’ abled. The examples of corporeal alterity are, thus, manifested as a monstrous, mutant image that warns spectators about the dangers of both medical and environmental experiments. In this sense, the analysis of the film Total Recall (Paul Verhoeven, 1990) and its remake (Len Wiseman, 2012), serves as a starting point to offer a critical vision of the abjection caused by the dismantling of the human form, in the words of Manuela Rossini. The critique emerges from Feminist Studies but also from other contemporary schools which also question the hierarchy between bodies such as Queer or Crip Theory. From a posthuman perspective, the presentation of disabled bodies reflects humanity’s propensity for their nullification and, therefore, their capacity to be exploited and discarded.
PB Asociación Cultural Xatafi
SN 1887-2905 (electrónico)
YR 2021
FD 2021
LK http://hdl.handle.net/10272/20025
UL http://hdl.handle.net/10272/20025
LA eng
NO Domínguez García, B.: "Of Mutants and Monsters:  A Posthuman Study of  Verhoeven’s and Wiseman’s  Total Recall". Hélice. Vol. 7, Nº. 1, págs. 37-51 (2021)
DS Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad de Huelva
RD 31 may 2026