Cinematic Life of the Gene

Informationen zum Autor 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 . Klappentext Cultural study of how genetic engineering & genomics have influenced cultural conceptions of the human body as evidenced in contemporary films. 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.

Product details

• Authors: Jackie Stacey
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 02.04.2010
• EAN: 9780822344940
• ISBN: 978-0-8223-4494-0
• No. of pages: 344
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Art > Theatre, ballet