>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. -- David A. Kirby Department of Biology American University 4400 Massachusetts Ave, NW Washington, DC 20016 Phone: (202)885-2193 Email: [log in to unmask] ---- Online resources for film/TV studies may be found at ScreenSite http://www.tcf.ua.edu/screensite