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Orphan black : performance, gender, biopolitics / edited by Andrea Goulet and Robert A. Rushing.

Other author/creatorGoulet, Andrea, editor.
Other author/creatorRushing, Robert A., editor.
Format Electronic and Book
Publication Info Bristol, UK ; Chicago, USA : Intellect, 2018.
Description1 online resource
Supplemental Content Ebook Central
Subject(s)
Contents Title Page; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Intersections; Organization and Contents; Part One: Performance/Technology/Gender; Part Two: Reproduction/Biopolitics/Community; Notes; Part One; Gesture in Orphan Black; Notes; Playing with TechnoDollies: The TV Actress and Other Technologies; The Amount of Acting in Orphan Black; The Labour of Acting; But Whose Labour -- Whose Body?; The Actor Is a Cyborg; Characters Are Cyborgs, Too; The TechnoDolly Is Us; The TechnoDolly Escapes Her Programming; Conclusion; Notes.
Contents Animating Cloning: Special Effects and Mediated Bodies in Orphan Black and Jurassic Park; When Clones Meet: Orphan Black and Jurassic Park; Animation, Image Splicing and Cinematic Hybridization; Watching While (Face) Blind: Clone Layering and Prosopagnosia; Will the Real Clone Please Stand Up?; How It's Done; Watching While Face Blind; But in the End ... ; Notes; Part Two; Game of Clones: Orphan Black's Family Romance; Notes; Orphan Black and the Ideology of DNA; DNA as Depicted in Orphan Black; History of Genetics; The Clones of Orphan Black; Notes.
Contents Being Together: Immunity and Community in Orphan Black; Immunity and Community; Immunizing Humanity: Neolution and Its Avatars; (Be)coming Together: 'Sestrahood', Clone Club and Common Immunity; Notes; The Dancing Women: Decoding Biopolitical Fantasy; Introduction; The Dancing Men; Codes and Ciphers; The Dancing Women; Biopolitical Fantasy; Notes; The Replicant's 'Réplique': Motherhood and the Posthuman Family as Resistance in Orphan Black; La Réplique: Truong, Dantec and Orphan Black; Clone Club and the Biopolitics of Adaptation: Malabou and Goh.
Contents Afterword: Reflections on the Show, and Interviews with Cast, Crew and Creators; Nurtured vs. Unnurtured; Insides and Outsides; Behind the Camera; Notes; Appendix: Orphan Black Episodes; References; Notes on Contributors; Index.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
Source of descriptionVendor-supplied metadata.
Source of descriptionOnline resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, Oct. 25, 2018).
Issued in other formPrint version: Orphan black. Bristol, UK ; Chicago, USA : Intellect, 2018 1783209224 9781783209224
Genre/formElectronic books.
Genre/formDrama.
ISBN9781783209231 (electronic bk.)
ISBN1783209232 (electronic bk.)
Stock number3-180-9781783209231 Ingram Content Group

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