Stacey The Cinematic Life of the Gene

1. Auflage 2010
ISBN: 978-0-8223-9094-7
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 344 Seiten

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Stacey, Jackie

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gender Studies, Geschlechtersoziologie
• Naturwissenschaften Biowissenschaften Biowissenschaften Genetik und Genomik (nichtmedizinisch)
• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Filmwissenschaft, Fernsehen, Radio Filmgeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface ix

Acknowledgments xv

Introduction: Technologies of Imitation and the Genetic Imaginary 1

Part 1. Sameness Ad Infinitum

1. The Hell of the Same: Cloning, Baudrillard, and the Queering of Biology 19

2. She Is Not Herself: The Deviant Relations of Alien: Resurrection 36

3. Screening the Gene: Femininity as Code in Species 66

Part 2. Imitations of Life

4. Cloning as Biomimicry 95

5. Genetic Impersonation and the Improvisation Kinship: Gattaca's Queer Visions 113

6. The Uncanny Architectures of Intimacy in Code 46 137

Part 3. Stairway to Heaven

7. Cut-and-Paste Bodies: The Shock of Genetic Simulation 177

8. Leading Across the In-Between: Transductive Cinema in Teknolust 195

9. Enacting the Gene: The Animation of Science in Genetic Admiration 225

Afterword: Double Take, Déjà Vu 257

Notes 273

Bibliography 287

Filmography 303

Index 307

Über Autor(innen)

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 of the journals Screen and Feminist Theory.