Television and the Genetic Imaginary

• Main Author: Bull, Sofia (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: London : Palgrave Macmillan UK : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Series: Palgrave Studies in Science and Popular Culture
• Subjects: Motion pictures and television.; Human genetics.; Screen Studies.; Human Genetics.

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 th...

Table of Contents:

• 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.