Pop-eu. Volume 1 : popular eugenics in television & film / Dr Shantella Sherman.

"The term eugenics continues to conjure images of mass genocide or scientists promoting the end of social issues through selective breeding. The American eugenics movement, however, remains formally fused to our everyday lives through popular culture - particularly television and film. While America has set aside terms like moron, imbecile, feebleminded, and idiot, it continues to utilize the policies, laws, and tenets manufactured and embraced during the movement's heyday to govern. Eugenics also permeates our television shows and films without us being aware through stereotypes, casting, and scripting. Pop-Eu: Popular Eugenics in Television & Film deconstructs some of the bad science we love to watch in the first of a three-volume examination."--Provided by publisher.