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Television and the genetic imaginary / Sofia Bull.
Van Pelt Library PN1992.8.S33 B85 2019
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Bull, Sofia, 1981- author.
- Series:
- Palgrave studies in science and popular culture
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Science on television.
- Medicine on television.
- Science in popular culture.
- Physical Description:
- xii, 239 pages ; 22 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- London, United Kingdom : Palgrave Macmillan, [2019]
- 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"--Back cover.
- 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.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Anne and Joseph Trachtman Memorial Book Fund.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Bull, Sofia. Television and the genetic imaginary.
- ISBN:
- 1137548460
- 9781137548467
- OCLC:
- 1085161809
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