Helen Kay asks: > Can anyone help? I'm trying to compile a list of films or TV programmes > (fiction or non-fiction, but preferably post-1970) which incorporate or > discuss popular images of genetics. I'm looking in particular for > popular "behavioural genetics" stories--"bad seed" or "evil genes" themes. You might want to start with films based on Naturalist novels that often deal with the anti-hero protagonists as "tainted" by "bad blood." Renoir's LA BETE HUMAINE (from a Zola novel) and von Stroheim's GREED (adapted from Frank Norris's MCTEAGUE) are two examples. Of course, some of the more recent horror/slasher films play on this theme, but it's interesting to note that some of them have the slasher tainted not by blood or genes but by a traumatic experience. The Nature vs. Nurture debate continues. Don Larsson ---------------------- Donald Larsson, Mankato State U (MN) [log in to unmask] ---- Online resources for film/TV studies may be found at ScreenSite http://www.tcf.ua.edu/screensite