Science in Popular Culture: A Reference Guide - Hardcover

Riper, A. Bowdoin Van

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0313318220 ISBN 13: 9780313318221

Verlag: Greenwood, 2002

Inhaltsangabe

Spaceships travel through time at lightspeed, piloted by human clones and talking animals. Serious injuries are healed with the wave of a medical gizmo. The media makes it all look easy. Can scientists hope to accomplish such amazing feats in the real world, or are they merely flights of fancy? This book is a fun look at what can, and can't, be achieved with current technology in today's laboratory experiments.

Fans of the Jetsons, Star Trek, and Star Wars will learn the facts behind the fiction through entires that describe the scientific inventions and procedures on the screen, and how they differ from the reality. Van Riper shows us who innovators like Charles Darwin, Benjamin Franklin, and Isaac Newton really were before they were mythologized. He discusses how animals such as chimpanzees, dolphins, and elephants are portrayed in books and films, and what we really know about animal intelligence. This book lifts the curtain on science fiction, revealing how and where scientific laws have been discarded for the sake of a good plot.

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A. Bowdoin Van Riper is a historian who specializes in depictions of science and technology in popular culture. His publications include Rockets and Missiles: The Life Story of a Technology (2007) and A Biographical Encyclopedia of Scientists and Inventors in American Film and Television (Scarecrow, 2011).

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Greenwood
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2002
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0313318220
• ISBN 13: 9780313318221
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Anzahl der Seiten: 328
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