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Reproduction on Film: 'Reproductive Dystopias' 7-23 March 2011 at the Cambridge Arts Picturehouse As part of the Generation to Reproduction Wellcome Trust Strategic Award events programme, our first 'Reproduction on Film' series covers the topic of Reproductive Dystopias. It presents a series of pessimistic visions of futures in which human reproduction is controlled, prevented, modified or impossible. The sequence of films from the 1930s to the present day tells much about the continuity and discontinuity of concern. Monday 7 March, 18.30: Code 46 Introduced and with discussion led by Kate O'Riordan (Film and Media, Sussex) Director: Michael Winterbottom. Starring: Tim Robbins, Samantha Morton, Togo Igawa, Nabil Elouahabi. UK/US 2003. 92 mins. Kate O'Riordan will also present a special History of Medicine seminar on 'Cloning and film: fictional vectors of factual imaginaries' on Tuesday 8 March at 5pm in Seminar Room 1, HPS, Free School Lane, Cambridge CB2 3RH. Wednesday 9 March, 18.30: Gattaca Introduced and with discussion led by Sarah Franklin (Sociology, LSE) Director: Andrew Niccol. Starring: Ethan Hawke, Uma Thurman, Gore Vidal, Jude Law. USA 1997. 106 mins. Monday 14 March, 18.30: The Stepford Wives Introduced and with discussion led by John Forrester (HPS, Cambridge) Director: Bryan Forbes. Starring: Katharine Ross, Paula Prentiss, Peter Masterson. USA 1975. 115 mins. Wednesday 16 March, 18.00: 1930s Double Bill Introduced and with discussion led by Alec Charles (Media, Art and Design, Bedfordshire) Island of Lost Souls Director: Erle C. Kenton. Starring: Charles Laughton, Richard Arlen, Leila Hyams, Bela Lugosi. USA 1932. 70 mins, b/w. Tomorrow's Children Director: Crane Wilbur. Starring: Diane Sinclair, Donald Douglas, John Preston. USA 1934. 70 mins, b/w. Monday 21 March, 18.30: Soylent Green Introduced and with discussion led by Jesse Olszynko-Gryn (HPS, Cambridge) Director: Richard Fleischer. Starring: Charlton Heston, Leigh Taylor-Young, Edward G. Robinson. USA 1973. 97 mins. Wednesday 23 March, 18.30: Children of Men Introduced and with discussion led by Josie Gill (English, Cambridge) Director: Alfonso Cuarón. Starring: Clive Owen, Julianne Moore, Michael Caine. USA/UK 2006. 109 mins. Further details and film descriptions at: http://www.hps.cam.ac.uk/medicine/film.html Booking from: Arts Picturehouse, Cambridge 38-39 St Andrew's Street, Cambridge CB2 3AR Box office number: 0871 902 5720 Email: [log in to unmask] Website: http://www.picturehouses.co.uk/cinema/Arts_Picturehouse_Cambridge/