Project Details
Projekt
Many good lives? Televisual negotiations of generativity and diversity in the context of medicine, temporality and the good life
Subject Area
Practical Philosophy
German Literary and Cultural Studies (Modern German Literature)
Theatre and Media Studies
German Literary and Cultural Studies (Modern German Literature)
Theatre and Media Studies
Term
since 2021
Project identifier
Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 424883170
The media cultural studies subproject (SP-B) analyses how German-language film, television and streaming productions narratively negotiate the interrelationship between medical innovations and ideas of a good life in time with regard to aspects of generativity and diversity on the basis of the FOR's three fields of medical practice (chronic illness, reproductive medicine and old age/care). Within the framework of the FOR 5022, it assumes a position that links the subprojects. Our basic assumption is that generativity and diversity, as supra-individual dimensions of a good life, are in a tense relationship with often heteronormative implications. From the perspective of temporality, intergenerational relationships can be understood as historical-vertical forms of social differentiation (with a view to the past/preceding and the future/subsequent), while diversity refers primarily to forms of horizontal (present/simultaneous) social differentiation. In three sub-studies, the SP looks at 1) doctor and hospital series (medicals), 2) documentaries and 3) television and cinema films from the arthouse and independent sector (e.g., queer cinema). As the subproject investigates how the three fields of practice are presented from the perspectives of generativity, diversity and narrativity in the sense of popularised medicine and medical ethics, it is in close thematic exchange with SP-C (Psychocardiology), SP-D (Ethics of Reproductive Medicine), SP E (General Practice) and SP F (Ethics of Geriatric Medicine); in methodological terms, SP-B is directly linked to SP-C and SP-D through its focus on (illness) narratives; and in fundamental, theoretically grounded terms - i.e. in relation to questions of intergenerational temporality and the (dis)continuities of the good life - it is dependent on cooperation with SP-A (Philosophy) and ZIP (Central and Integrative Project).
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