The cinematic life of the gene [electronic resource] / Jackie Stacey.

Cultural study of how genetic engineering & genomics have influenced cultural conceptions of the human body as evidenced in contemporary films.

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Bibliographic Details
Online Access: Full Text (via Duke)
Main Author: Stacey, Jackie
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Durham [NC] : Duke University Press, 2010.
Series:e-Duke books scholarly collection.
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Table of Contents:
  • The hell of the same : cloning, Baudrillard, and the queering of biology
  • She is not herself : the deviant relations of Alien : resurrection
  • Screening the gene : femininity as code in Species
  • Cloning as biomimicry
  • Genetic impersonation and the improvisation of kinship : Gattaca's queer visions
  • The uncanny architectures of intimacy in Code 46
  • Cut-and-paste bodies : the shock of genetic simulation
  • Leading across the in-between : transductive cinema in Teknolust
  • Enacting the gene : the animation of science in Genetic admiration.