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The Cinematic Life of the Gene

Jackie Stacey

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Description for The Cinematic Life of the Gene Paperback. A leading feminist film theorist argues that the cinema animates the tropes of and enacts our fears about cloning and other kinds of genetic engineering. Num Pages: 344 pages, 52 illustrations. BIC Classification: APFA. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 224 x 156 x 20. Weight in Grams: 466.
What might the cinema tell us about how and why the prospect of cloning disturbs our most profound ideas about gender, sexuality, difference, and the body? In The Cinematic Life of the Gene, the pioneering feminist film theorist Jackie Stacey argues that as a cultural technology of imitation, cinema is uniquely situated to help us theorize the genetic imaginary, the constellation of fantasies that genetic engineering provokes. Since the mid-1990s there has been remarkable innovation in genetic engineering and a proliferation of films structured by anxieties about the changing meanings of biological and cultural reproduction. Bringing analyses of ... Read more

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Publisher

Duke University Press

Format

Paperback

Publication date

2010

Condition

New

Weight

466g

Number of Pages

344

Place of Publication

North Carolina, United States

ISBN

9780822345077

SKU

V9780822345077

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About Jackie Stacey

Jackie Stacey is Professor of Media and Cultural Studies at the University of Manchester. She is the author of Star Gazing: Female Spectators and Hollywood Cinema and Teratologies: A Cultural Study of Cancer; co-author of Global Nature, Global Culture; and co-editor of several books, including Queer Screen: A Screen Reader, Thinking through Skin, and Romance Revisited. Stacey is an editor ... Read more

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The book is extremely interesting and thought provoking. . . . Femspec readers will find the discussions of cloning, biomimicry, and genetic engineering that exist in these science fiction films fascinating, not just because the films themselves are interesting and entertaining, but also because of the insight one draws from cinematic patterns regarding the body. . . .
... Read moreKelly VanBuren
Femspec
Stacey provides a compelling argument that rather than being seen as separate domains of knowledge and meaning, both science and cinema have co-constitutive histories that have together given visual and textual form to the epistemological construct and ontological experience of the genetic identity. . . . The Cinematic Life of the Gene provides strikingly rich harbinger of the shape of genetic things to come and of future theoretical responses to the complexities of biotechnological transformation.
Rebecca Bishop
Cultural Studies Review
Stacey has produced a work that will be a major contribution to discussions of filmic treatments of issues surrounding genetics, and her exploration of concepts such as the genetic imaginary and bio-aura offers critics new vocabulary with which to continue such interrogations.
Laurel Bollinger S
Science Fiction Film and Television
Stacey argues persuasively for the primacy of cinema in understanding genetic anxieties. . . . Stacey's eye for detail in reading these films is precise and illuminating, richly enhancing appreciation of them and spurring a desire to see them again.
D. Travers Scott
International Journal of Communciation
The Cinematic Life of the Gene is the best work yet by one of the major feminist film theorists of our time. It is an exhilarating read as well as a fabulous contribution to the crossover area between film theory and science studies. -Lisa Cartwright, author of Moral Spectatorship: Technologies of Voice and Affect in Postwar Representations of the Child Stacey provides a compelling argument that rather than being seen as separate domains of knowledge and meaning, both science and cinema have co-constitutive histories that have together given visual and textual form to the epistemological construct and ontological experience of the genetic identity. . . . The Cinematic Life of the Gene provides strikingly rich harbinger of the shape of genetic things to come and of future theoretical responses to the complexities of biotechnological transformation. - Rebecca Bishop, Cultural Studies Review Stacey has produced a work that will be a major contribution to discussions of filmic treatments of issues surrounding genetics, and her exploration of concepts such as the genetic imaginary and bio-aura offers critics new vocabulary with which to continue such interrogations. - Laurel Bollinger, Science Fiction Film and Television Stacey argues persuasively for the primacy of cinema in understanding genetic anxieties. . . . Stacey's eye for detail in reading these films is precise and illuminating, richly enhancing appreciation of them and spurring a desire to see them again. - D. Travers Scott, International Journal of Communciation The book is extremely interesting and thought provoking. . . . Femspec readers will find the discussions of cloning, biomimicry, and genetic engineering that exist in these science fiction films fascinating, not just because the films themselves are interesting and entertaining, but also because of the insight one draws from cinematic patterns regarding the body. . . . - Kelly VanBuren, Femspec Show Less

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