What is it about?
The use of clips from films and TV series for educational issues is a common practice. It helps to engage students to the subject to be tough and improve their attention (Rose, 2003; Sanchez-Angulo, 2023). Entertainment films can also be used to educate the public on complex themes like the applications from biotechnology. Although the term “biotechnology” seems actual, in fact we have been practicing this discipline for millennia, when we first began to domesticate plants and animals for our own benefit. Evidently, this scientific knowledge could also be applied to understand the functioning of human beings
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Why is it important?
A majority of movies depicts the science of biotechnology under a negative light. Few are the ones that accurately depict the advances and its social implications. Even today’s life-saving biomedical applications are not free from such mistrust. Despite this, even films that show the alleged negative aspects can be used to show the real impact of biotechnology in society. We will discuss here some of those movies that protraits biotechnology and how can be used to teach their benefical uses.
Perspectives
The relationship between cinema and science has not been easy, even though the former owes its existence to the latter in the form of technological advances that made it possible to capture images in motion. While scientists seek to comprehend the “why” of things, filmmakers endeavor to express their vision of the world. he different films discussed here are a representative sample of the different facets of society’s fear on biotechnology: the creation of uncontrollable monsters, unstoppable pathogens or greedy biotech companies. But as we have seen, in the real world, all these negative aspects are actually based on scientific, social and ethical advances that have come about thanks to advances in biotechnology.
Manuel Sanchez
Universidad Miguel Hernandez de Elche
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This page is a summary of: New Manifestations from the Creation and Thought of the Fantastic, November 2024, Ediciones Universidad de Salamanca,
DOI: 10.14201/0aq0372.
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