Television and the Genetic Imaginary
By Sofia Bull
Hardcover
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By Sofia Bull
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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 the key themes of complexity and kinship, which function as nodes around which older essentialist notions about the human genome clash with newly emergent postgenomic sensibilities. Analysing a wide ra...


