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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 post-genomic sensibilities. Analysing a wide range of US and UK programmes, from science documentaries, science fiction serials and crime procedurals, to family history programmes, sitcoms and reality shows, Television and the Genetic Imaginary illustrates the extent to which molecular frameworks of understanding now permeate popular culture. .

Medicine on television. --- Medicine in television --- Television --- Motion pictures and television. --- Human genetics. --- Screen Studies. --- Human Genetics. --- Genetics --- Heredity, Human --- Human biology --- Physical anthropology --- Moving-pictures and television --- Television and motion pictures

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"The 'serial killer' has become increasingly prevalent in popular culture since the term was coined by Robert Ressler at the FBI in the mid-1970s. Murders and Acqusitions explores the social and political implications of this cultural figure. The collection argues that the often blood-chilling representations of the serial killer and serial killing offered in TV series, films, novels and fan productions function to address contemporary concerns and preoccupations. Focusing on well-known popular culture texts, such as The Wire, Kiss the Girls, Monster, the Saw series, American Psycho, The Strangers, CSI and Dexter, this electic anthology engages with a broad spectrum of cultural theory and performs critical textual analysis to examine the sophisticated ways the serial killer is deployed to mediate and/or work through cultural anxieties and fears"--

Sociology of culture --- Film --- Serial murderers in mass media --- Serial murderers in popular culture --- 130.2 --- 791.43 --- cultuurfilosofie --- film --- literatuur --- mediatheorie --- serial killers --- seriemoordenaars --- televisie --- Popular culture --- Mass media