>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.
 
Dorothy Nelkin and Susan Lindee's book _The DNA Mystique_ (New York:
Freeman, 1995) does a good job outlining several films, television
programs, comic books and fictional novels that incorporate the idea of
genetic essentialism.
 
Martin Pernick's book _The Black Stork: Eugenics and the Death of
“Defective” Babies in American Medicine and Motion Pictures Since 1915_
(Oxford: Oxford UP, 1996) covers genes and behavior for films mostly
before 1945.
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