The Cinematic Life of the Gene - Hardcover

Stacey, Jackie

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ISBN 10: 0822344947 ISBN 13: 9780822344940

Verlag: Duke University Press, 2010

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Book by Stacey Jackie

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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. . . ." -- Kelly 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

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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 several of these films into dialogue with contemporary cultural theory, Stacey demonstrates how the cinema animates the tropes and enacts the fears at the heart of our genetic imaginary. She engages with film theory; queer theories of desire, embodiment, and kinship; psychoanalytic theories of subject formation; and debates about the reproducibility of the image and the shift from analog to digital technologies.Stacey examines the body-horror movies Alien: Resurrection and Species in light of Jean Baudrillard's apocalyptic proclamations about cloning and "the hell of the same," and she considers the art-house thrillers Gattaca and Code 46 in relation to ideas about imitation, including feminist theories of masquerade, postcolonial conceptualizations of mimicry, and queer notions of impersonation. Turning to Teknolust and Genetic Admiration, independent films by feminist directors, she extends Walter Benjamin's theory of aura to draw an analogy between the replication of biological information and the reproducibility of the art object. Stacey suggests new ways to think about those who are not what they appear to be, the problem of determining identity in a world of artificiality, and the loss of singularity amid unchecked replication.

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• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2010
• ISBN 10: 0822344947
• ISBN 13: 9780822344940
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 344