Breeding cells / directed by Anna Straube [and others].
| Other author | Straube, Anna. |
| Other author | Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland. |
| Format | Video (Streaming) |
| Publication Info | London, UK : Royal Anthropological Institute, 2009. |
| Description | 1 online resource (39 min.). |
| Supplemental Content | https://go.openathens.net/redirector/ecu.edu?url=http://www.aspresolver.com/aspresolver.asp?ANTH;1879432 |
| Subjects |
| Series | Ethnographic video online, volume 2 Student films |
| Abstract | Breeding Cells is a film from the laboratory of reproduction. A fertility clinic is a place where human reproduction is separated from sex and anatomized into bio/technological components. There fertilization is made visible and manipulable on a cellular level while the couples themselves seem to become marginal participants in a process that involves a large number of different professionalized agents and technologies. Recorded in the ward of reproductional medicine at Charite Hospital Berlin, this documentary approaches a scientific environment with an experimental ethnographic gaze. The filmmakers meet an open and quite unexcited "fertility team", who consider themselves simply assistants of nature. But what is nature in a hospital environment that is highly regulated by procedural methods, doctors conventions and conservative laws? Closely describing the routines and moral concerns of the medical staff, the film is portraying a transition time, when biotechnological science fiction is turning into everyday life. |
| Other forms | Previously released as DVD. |
| Reproduction note | Electronic reproduction. Alexandria, VA : Alexander Street Press, 2012. (Ethnographic video online). Available via World Wide Web. |
| Language | This edition in German with English subtitles. |
| Genre/form | Nonfiction films. |
| Other title | Schwangere Zellen. |
Availability
| Library | Location | Call Number | Status | Item Actions |
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| Electronic Resources | Access Content Online | ✔ Available |