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Author Stacey, Jackie.

Title The cinematic life of the gene / Jackie Stacey
Published Durham [NC] : Duke University Press, 2010

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Description 1 online resource (xvi, 326 pages) : illustrations
Series e-Duke books scholarly collection.
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
Summary Cultural study of how genetic engineering & genomics have influenced cultural conceptions of the human body as evidenced in contemporary films
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Science fiction films -- Social aspects
Genetic engineering in motion pictures.
Science fiction films -- History and criticism
Mass media and culture.
ART -- Film & Video.
PERFORMING ARTS -- Film & Video -- Reference.
PERFORMING ARTS -- Film & Video -- History & Criticism.
Genetic engineering in motion pictures
Mass media and culture
Science fiction films
Filmästhetik
Gentechnologie
Genetik -- Motiv -- Film.
Genetik -- Motiv -- Science fiction Film.
Film -- Motiv -- Genetik.
Science fiction Film -- Motiv -- Genetik.
Performing Arts.
Science fiction films -- Social aspects.
Genetic engineering in motion pictures.
Science fiction films -- History and criticism.
Mass media and culture.
Films̃thetik.
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780822390947
0822390949
9786613035813
6613035815