Science on American television : a history / Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette.

Author/creator LaFollette, Marcel Chotkowski, 1944-
Format Book
Publication InfoChicago : The University of Chicago Press, 2013.
Descriptionx, 306 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Subjects

Contents Inventions and dreams -- Experimenting with illusion -- Elementary education, basic economics -- Dramatizing science -- Taking the audience's pulse -- Saving planet earth: fictions and facts -- Adjusting the lens: documentaries -- Monsters and diamonds: the price of exclusive access -- In splendid isolation: the public's television -- Defining what's new(s) about science -- Entrepreneurial popularization -- Warning: children in the audience -- Rarae aves: television's female scientists -- The Smithsonian's world: exclusivity and power -- All science, all the time.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
LCCN 2012003668
ISBN9780226921990 (cloth : alkaline paper)
ISBN0226921999 (cloth : alkaline paper)

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Joyner General Stacks PN1992.8 .S33 L34 2013 ✔ Available Place Hold