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Human cloning in film: horror, ambivalence, hope
journal contribution
posted on 2023-06-15, 14:02 authored by Kate O'RiordanFictional filmic representations of human cloning have shifted in relation to the 1997 announcement of the birth of Dolly the cloned sheep, and since therapeutic human cloning became a scientific practice in the early twentieth century. The operation and detail of these shifts can be seen through an analysis of the films The Island (2005) and Aeon Flux (2005). These films provide a site for the examination of how these changes in human cloning from fiction to practice, and from horror to hope, have been represented and imagined, and how these distinctions have operated visually in fiction, and in relation to genre.
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Science as CultureISSN
0950-5431Publisher
Taylor & FrancisExternal DOI
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2Volume
17Page range
145-162Department affiliated with
- Media and Film Publications
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