A New Version of Genesis
A New Version of Genesis
The production, conception, and circulation of three series—the 2001 Evolution: A Journey into Where We’re From and Where We’re Going, the 2004 NOVA series Origins, and the 2014 Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey—suggests the breadth and concision of the contemporary universal history, demonstrating how each series attempts to channel and address particular elements of its wider social and political context, with prominence given to contemporaneous politicized polarizations of specific religious and scientific camps. The production and reception (from embrace to dismissal) of these documentaries, and the outreach tied to them, also suggest the degree to which the mythology of science had become established as a recognized and authorized element of contemporary culture—the degree to which its final story was broadly received as a universal history.
Keywords: documentary sensibility, intelligent design, filmic simulation, universal historical projection, Evolution, Cosmos, NOVA Origins
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