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Television and the genetic imaginary

Television and the genetic imaginary
Television and the genetic imaginary
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.
television, genetics, post-genomic, popular culture, medical humanities, CGI, genealogy, clones, complexity, kinship, television series, seriality, Assisted reproductive technology, IVF, new genetics
Palgrave Macmillan
Bull, Sofia
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Bull, Sofia
67e74291-8c1f-409e-8c84-0416544992b7

Bull, Sofia (2019) Television and the genetic imaginary (Palgrave Studies in Science and Popular Culture), 1 ed. London. Palgrave Macmillan, 239pp.

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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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Published date: 2019
Keywords: television, genetics, post-genomic, popular culture, medical humanities, CGI, genealogy, clones, complexity, kinship, television series, seriality, Assisted reproductive technology, IVF, new genetics

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