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Informationen zum Autor Jackie Stacey Klappentext ""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" Zusammenfassung 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. 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
