• Media type: Book
  • Title: Lab coats in Hollywood : science, scientists, and cinema
  • Contains: Scientific expertise in Hollywood : the interactions between scientific and entertainment cultures -- Cinematic science : scientific representation, film realism, and virtual witnessing technologies -- Valuing expertise : the entertainment industry's and scientific community's motivations in the science consulting relationship -- Scientists on screen : being a scientist, looking like a lab -- Cinematic fact checking : negotiating scientific facts within filmmaking culture -- Best guesses : scientific uncertainty, flexibility, and scientists in the aisles -- Fantastically logical : fantastic science, speculative scenarios, and the expertise of logic -- Preventing future disasters : science consultants and the enhancement of cinematic disasters -- The future is now : diegetic prototypes and the role of cinematic narratives in generating real-world technological development -- Improving science, improving entertainment : the significance of scientists in Hollywood.
  • Contributor: Kirby, David A. [Author]
  • Published: Cambridge, Mass. [u.a.]: MIT Press, c2011
  • Extent: XIV, 265 S.; Ill; 24 cm
  • Language: English
  • ISBN: 0262014785; 9780262518703; 9780262014786
  • RVK notation: AP 53970 : Sonstige (z. B. Road movie)
    AK 27400 : Wissenschaft und Massenmedien, Parteien, Militär
  • Keywords: Film > Wissenschaft > Wissenschaftler
    Naturwissenschaften
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  • Footnote: Formerly CIP. - Includes bibliographical references and index

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