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- Title
The Postracial Imagination: Gattaca's Imperfect Science.
- Authors
Banner, Olivia
- Abstract
An essay is presented on the rhetoric of genetics in biological commodities represented in the 1997 film "Gattaca," directed by Andrew Niccol and the confluence of human race and biology. It offers an overview of the film's story and its representation of a biological model and liberal multiculturalist typecasting logic of race. The author argues that the film's postracial interpretations reveal the contradictions of the conceptualizations and understanding of race in the contemporary culture.
- Subjects
POSTRACIALISM; GATTACA (Film); NICCOL, Andrew, 1964-; RHETORIC &; culture; BIOLOGICAL models; MULTICULTURALISM; INTERPRETATION (Philosophy)
- Publication
Discourse: Journal for Theoretical Studies in Media & Culture, 2011, Vol 33, Issue 2, p221
- ISSN
1522-5321
- Publication type
Essay
- DOI
10.1353/dis.2011.a474425