Television and the Genetic Imaginary

Sofia Bull (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

239 Seiten

2019 | 2019 ed.
Palgrave Macmillan (Verlag)
978-1-137-54846-7 (ISBN)

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This book examines the complex ways in which television articulates ideas about DNA in the early 21st century. Considering television’s distinct aesthetic and narrative forms, as well as its specific cultural roles, it identifies TV as a key site for the genetic imaginary. The book addresses the key themes of complexity and kinship, which function as nodes around which older essentialist notions about the human genome clash with newly emergent post-genomic sensibilities. Analysing a wide range of US and UK programmes, from science documentaries, science fiction serials and crime procedurals, to family history programmes, sitcoms and reality shows, Television and the Genetic Imaginary illustrates the extent to which molecular frameworks of understanding now permeate popular culture.

Sofia Bull is a lecturer in film and television studies at the University of Southampton, UK.

1. Introduction: A cultural forum on genetics.- Part I: Complexity.- 2. Microscopic CGI: Imaging molecular worlds.- 3. Complex seriality: Genetic science as narrative device.- Part II: Kinship.- 4. Genealogical intimacy: Materialising genetic kinship.- 5. TV families: Normalising assisted reproduction.- Part III.- 6. Epilogue: Television clones.

Erscheinungsdatum	25.06.2019
Reihe/Serie	Palgrave Studies in Science and Popular Culture
Zusatzinfo	XII, 239 p.
Verlagsort	Basingstoke
Sprache	englisch
Maße	148 x 210 mm
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Film / TV
	Studium ► 2. Studienabschnitt (Klinik) ► Humangenetik
	Sozialwissenschaften
ISBN-10	1-137-54846-0 / 1137548460
ISBN-13	978-1-137-54846-7 / 9781137548467
Zustand	Neuware