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  1. Hollywood Science
    Movies, Science, and the End of the World
    Author: Perkowitz, Sidney
    Published: [2007]; © 2007
    Publisher:  Columbia University Press, New York, NY

    Whether depicting humans battling aliens or a brave geologist saving lives as a volcano erupts, science-fiction films are an exciting visual and sensuous introduction to the workings of science and technology. These films explore a range of complex... more

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    Whether depicting humans battling aliens or a brave geologist saving lives as a volcano erupts, science-fiction films are an exciting visual and sensuous introduction to the workings of science and technology. These films explore a range of complex topics in vivid and accessible ways, from space travel and laser technology to genetic engineering, global warming, and the consequences of nuclear weaponry. Though actual scientific lab work might not be as exciting, science fiction is an engaging yet powerful way for a wide audience to explore some of the most pressing issues and ideas of our time.In this book, a scientist and dedicated film enthusiast discusses the portrayal of science in more than one hundred films, including science fiction, scientific biographies, and documentaries. Beginning with early films like Voyage to the Moon and Metropolis and concluding with more recent offerings like The Matrix, War of the Worlds, A Beautiful Mind, and An Inconvenient Truth, Sidney Perkowitz questions how much faith we can put into Hollywood's depiction of scientists and their work; how accurately these films capture scientific fact and theory; whether cataclysms like our collision with a comet can actually happen; and to what extent these films influence public opinion about science and the future. Movies, especially science-fiction films, temporarily remove viewers from the world as they know it and show them the world as it might be, providing special perspective on human nature and society. Yet "Hollywood science" can be erroneous, distorting fact for dramatic effect and stereotypi

     
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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9780231512398
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    Subjects: Genres, other; Science fiction films; Science in motion pictures; Naturwissenschaften <Motiv>; Film; Naturwissenschaften; Naturwissenschaftler <Motiv>
    Scope: 1 online resource, 40 illus
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    Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher’s Web site, viewed Jan. 06, 2016)
  2. Hollywood science
    movies, science, and the end of the world
    Author: Perkowitz, Sidney
    Published: 2007
    Publisher:  Columbia Univ. Press, New York

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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    ISBN: 9780231142809; 9780231512398
    RVK Categories: AP 50300
    Subjects: Science fiction films / United States / History and criticism; Science in motion pictures; Films de science-fiction - États-Unis - Histoire et critique; Sciences au cinéma; Science fiction films; Science in motion pictures; Film; Naturwissenschaftler <Motiv>; Naturwissenschaften; Naturwissenschaften <Motiv>
    Scope: X, 255 S., Ill., 24 cm
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    Includes bibliographical references (p. 231-237) and index

    Includes filmography: p. 239-242
  3. Hollywood science
    movies, science and the end of the world
    Author: Perkowitz, Sidney
    Published: 2007
    Publisher:  Columbia University Press, New York

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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    ISBN: 9780231142809; 0231142803; 9780231512398; 0231512392
    RVK Categories: AP 50300
    Subjects: Films de science-fiction - États-Unis - Histoire et critique; Sciences au cinéma; Science fiction films; Science in motion pictures; Film; Naturwissenschaften <Motiv>; Naturwissenschaften; Naturwissenschaftler <Motiv>
    Scope: x, 255 p., zahlr. Ill., 24 cm
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    Includes bibliographical references (p. 231-237) and index -- Includes filmography: p. 239-242
  4. Hollywood science
    movies, science, and the end of the world
    Author: Perkowitz, Sidney
    Published: 2010
    Publisher:  Columbia Univ. Press, New York

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    Source: Philologische Bibliothek, FU Berlin
    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    ISBN: 9780231142816; 9780231142809
    RVK Categories: AP 53900 ; AP 59484
    Edition: paperback ed.
    Subjects: Science fiction films; Science in motion pictures; Naturwissenschaften; Naturwissenschaftler <Motiv>; Naturwissenschaften <Motiv>; Film
    Scope: X, 255 S., Ill.
    Notes:

    Includes bibliographical references (p. 231-237) and index
  5. Hollywood Science
    Movies, Science, and the End of the World
    Author: Perkowitz, Sidney
    Published: [2007]; © 2007
    Publisher:  Columbia University Press, New York, NY

    Whether depicting humans battling aliens or a brave geologist saving lives as a volcano erupts, science-fiction films are an exciting visual and sensuous introduction to the workings of science and technology. These films explore a range of complex... more

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    Whether depicting humans battling aliens or a brave geologist saving lives as a volcano erupts, science-fiction films are an exciting visual and sensuous introduction to the workings of science and technology. These films explore a range of complex topics in vivid and accessible ways, from space travel and laser technology to genetic engineering, global warming, and the consequences of nuclear weaponry. Though actual scientific lab work might not be as exciting, science fiction is an engaging yet powerful way for a wide audience to explore some of the most pressing issues and ideas of our time.In this book, a scientist and dedicated film enthusiast discusses the portrayal of science in more than one hundred films, including science fiction, scientific biographies, and documentaries. Beginning with early films like Voyage to the Moon and Metropolis and concluding with more recent offerings like The Matrix, War of the Worlds, A Beautiful Mind, and An Inconvenient Truth, Sidney Perkowitz questions how much faith we can put into Hollywood's depiction of scientists and their work; how accurately these films capture scientific fact and theory; whether cataclysms like our collision with a comet can actually happen; and to what extent these films influence public opinion about science and the future. Movies, especially science-fiction films, temporarily remove viewers from the world as they know it and show them the world as it might be, providing special perspective on human nature and society. Yet "Hollywood science" can be erroneous, distorting fact for dramatic effect and stereotypi

     
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    Volltext (URL des Erstveröffentlichers)
    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9780231512398
    Other identifier:
    Subjects: Genres, other; Science fiction films; Science in motion pictures; Naturwissenschaften <Motiv>; Film; Naturwissenschaften; Naturwissenschaftler <Motiv>
    Scope: 1 online resource, 40 illus
    Notes:

    Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher’s Web site, viewed Jan. 06, 2016)
  6. Hollywood science
    movies, science, and the end of the world
    Author: Perkowitz, Sidney
    Published: 2007
    Publisher:  Columbia Univ. Press, New York, NY [u.a.]

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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    Format: Print
    ISBN: 0231142803; 9780231142809; 9780231512398
    Other identifier:
    9780231142809
    RVK Categories: AP 50300 ; AP 53900 ; AP 59484
    Subjects: Science fiction films; Science in motion pictures
    Scope: X, 255 S., Ill., 24 cm
    Notes:

    Includes bibliographical references and index