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Human Cloning in Film: Horror, Ambivalence, Hope

2008; Taylor & Francis; Volume: 17; Issue: 2 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1080/09505430802062919

1470-1189

Kate O’Riordan,

Neuroethics, Human Enhancement, Biomedical Innovations

Abstract Fictional 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 and Aeon Flux . 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.