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Television and the genetic imaginary / Sofia Bull.

Bull, Sofia, author.
2019
PN1992.8.S33
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Title
Television and the genetic imaginary / Sofia Bull.
Author
Bull, Sofia, author.
ISBN
9781137548474 (electronic book)
1137548479 (electronic book)
1137548460
9781137548467
Published
London : Palgrave Macmillan, [2019]
Language
English
Description
1 online resource.
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PN1992.8.S33
Dewey Decimal Classification
791.4566
Summary
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.
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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.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Online resource; title from PDF title page (viewed June 5, 2019).
Series
Palgrave studies in science and popular culture.
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TELEVISION AND THE GENETIC IMAGINARY.
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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.

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