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.
Call Number 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.
Note 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.
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references and index.
Access Note Access limited to authorized users.
Source of Description Online resource; title from PDF title page (viewed June 5, 2019).
Series Palgrave studies in science and popular culture.
Available in Other Form 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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