História, Ciências, Saúde - Manguinhos ISSN: 0104-5970
[email protected] Fundação Oswaldo Cruz Brasil Cormick, Craig Cloning goes to the movies História, Ciências, Saúde - Manguinhos, vol. 13, 2006, pp. 181-212 Fundação Oswaldo Cruz Rio de Janeiro, Brasil Available in: http://www.redalyc.org/articulo.oa?id=386137997011 How to cite Complete issue Scientific Information System More information about this article Network of Scientific Journals from Latin America, the Caribbean, Spain and Portugal Journal's homepage in redalyc.org Non-profit academic project, developed under the open access initiative CLONING GOES TO THE MOVIES CORMICK, C.: Cloning goes to the movies. História, Ciências, Saúde – Manguinhos, v. 13 (supplement), p. 181-212, October 2006. Public attitude research conducted by Biotechnology Australia shows that one of the major sources of information on human reproductive cloning is movies. Traditionally, understanding of new and emerging technologies has come through the mass media but human cloning, being so widely addressed through the popular culture of movies, is more effectively defined by Hollywood than the news media or science media. But how well are the science and social issues of cloning portrayed in box office hits such as The Island, Multiplicity, Star Wars: Attack of the Clones and Jurassic Park? These movies have enormous reach and Cloning goes to the undoubted influence, and are therefore worth analyzing in some detail. This study looks at movies 33 movies made between 1971 and 2005 that address human reproductive cloning, and it categorizes the films based on their genre and potential influence. Yet rather than simply rating the quality of the science portrayed, A clonagem vai ao the study compares the key messages in these movies with public attitudes towards cinema cloning, to examine the correlations.