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Please direct permission requests for these images to permissions dukeupress. For book covers to accompany reviews, please contact the publicity department. Instructions for requesting an electronic text on behalf of a student with disabilities are available here. 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? Since the mids 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: 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.
She is the author of Star Gazing: Female Spectators and Hollywood Cinema and Teratologies: Stacey is an editor of the journals Screen and Feminist Theory.
The Cinematic Life of the Gene. Author(s): Jackie Stacey: Published: April Pages: Illustrations: 52 illustrations: Sales/Territorial Rights: World. The Cinematic Life of the Gene Paperback – April 2, 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.
Sign up for Subject Matters email updates to receive discounts, new book announcements, and more. Create a reading list or add to an existing list. Sign-in or register now to continue. The Cinematic Life of the Gene Author s: 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: Femininity as Code in Species 66 Part 2. Citations are based on reference standards.
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