Master Mechanics and Wicked Wizards : Images of the American Scientist as Hero and Villain from Colonial Times to the Present /

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Allen, Glen Scott, 1950-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press, 2009.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Scientists > United States > History.
Science in mass media > United States > History.
Science in popular culture > United States > History.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Simon pure amateurs : American scientists of the early nineteenth century
  • Sex and the single mad scientist : domesticating scientific passion in nineteenth-century American fiction
  • A cabinet of wonders : selling American science in the nineteenth century
  • The world of tomorrow : technocracy as utopia in the age of pulps
  • The incredible shrinking scientist : how the heroes of Los Alamos became internationalist traitors
  • Invaders with Ph.D.'s : aliens, commies, and eggheads in science fiction films of the 1950s
  • Fallout : politics and paranoia after the bomb
  • Rocket science : (their) Sputniks + (our) dudniks = NASA
  • Tom Swift and the cosmic astronauts : pilots, pitchmen, warriors, or mechanics?
  • America vs. the evil empire(s) : good astronauts, bad aliens, and the battle for the high frontier
  • Looking backward : useful vs. wicked inventing in colonial America
  • Dejà vu all over again : fear, funding, and ignorance in contemporary scientific "controversies."

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