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Lab coats in Hollywood : science, scientists, and cinema /

Stanley Kubrick's "2001: A Space Odyssey", released in 1968, is perhaps the most scientifically accurate film ever produced. The film presented such a plausible, realistic vision of space flight that many moon hoax proponents believe that Kubrick staged the 1969 moon landing using the...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Kirby, David A. (David Allen), 1968- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, [2011]
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.