Body swaps, first popularized in Western Anglophone culture by the personal identity chapter of John Locke's Essay Concerning Human Understanding,[1] have been a common storytelling device in fiction media. Novels such as Vice Versa (1882)[2] and Freaky Friday (1972)[3] have inspired numerous film adaptations and retellings, as well as television series and episodes, many with titles derived from "Freaky Friday". In 2013, Disney Channel held a Freaky Freakend with seven shows that featured body-swapping episodes.[a] This list features exchanges between two beings, and thus excludes similar phenomena of body hopping, spirit possession, transmigration,[5] and avatars, unless the target being's mind is conversely placed in the source's body.[6][7] It also excludes age transformations that are sometimes reviewed or promoted as body swaps, as in the movies Big and 17 Again;[6][8][9] identity/role swaps, typically between clones, look-alikes, or doppelgängers;[10] and characters with multiple personalities.[6]
^John Locke, Essay Concerning Human Understanding, Bk. II, ch. 27
^Jose, Michael JR. "Vice Versa by F. Anstey Detailed Book Review". Archived from the original on April 8, 2011. Retrieved November 24, 2010.
^King, Robert (February 4, 2001). "The mother versus the author". St. Petersburg Times. Hernando. Retrieved November 24, 2010.
^"EXCLUSIVE: "Freaky Freakend" is Upon Us!". BOP and Tiger Beat Online. April 5, 2013. Archived from the original on September 12, 2013. Retrieved October 6, 2013.
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^ abcHunter, Rob (April 1, 2014). "10 Body Swap Movies That Aren't Actually Body Swap Movies No Matter How Often You Put Them On Your Listicle". Pajiba.com. Archived from the original on April 4, 2014. Retrieved May 25, 2014. Two people. Two bodies. A swap. Simple right? And yet just about any and every list of so-called body swap movies ignores that clear definition and includes films where people turn into their older or younger selves, aliens replace humans, people die and get reincarnated, and so on.
^Stelios Phili (August 5, 2011). "Understanding The Body Swap: Why "The Change-Up" Would Have Been Descartes' Favorite Movie - GQ". GQ. Retrieved August 30, 2015.
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^Campbell, Christopher (August 1, 2011). "10 Cliches of the Body Swap Movie". Spout. Indiewire. Retrieved May 25, 2014.
^Eleanor Barkhorn and Spencer Kornhaber (August 4, 2011). "5 Lessons From Life-Switching Movies". The Atlantic. Retrieved August 30, 2015.
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