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Lab Coats in Hollywood : Science, Scientists, and Cinema.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: The MIT Press SeriesPublisher: Cambridge : MIT Press, 2011Copyright date: ©2011Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (280 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780262295499
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Lab Coats in HollywoodDDC classification:
  • 791.43/66
LOC classification:
  • PN1995.9.S265 K57 2010
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Preface -- 1 Scientific Expertise in Hollywood -- 2 Cinematic Science -- 3 Valuing Expertise -- 4 Scientists on Screen -- 5 Cinematic Fact Checking -- 6 Best Guesses -- 7 Fantastically Logical -- 8 Preventing Future Disasters -- 9 The Future Is Now -- 10 Improving Science, Improving Entertainment -- Notes -- Index.
Summary: How science consultants make movie science plausible, in films ranging from 2001: A Space Odyssey to Finding Nemo.
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Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Preface -- 1 Scientific Expertise in Hollywood -- 2 Cinematic Science -- 3 Valuing Expertise -- 4 Scientists on Screen -- 5 Cinematic Fact Checking -- 6 Best Guesses -- 7 Fantastically Logical -- 8 Preventing Future Disasters -- 9 The Future Is Now -- 10 Improving Science, Improving Entertainment -- Notes -- Index.

How science consultants make movie science plausible, in films ranging from 2001: A Space Odyssey to Finding Nemo.

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