Title:
Science, Entertainment and Television Documentary by Vincent Campbell.
Author:
Campbell, Vincent. author.
SpringerLink (Online service)
General Notes:
Acknowledgements -- 1) Introduction: The Changing Landscape of Science Television -- 2) Analytical Frameworks: Science, Documentary and Factual Entertainment -- 3) Space Sciences: Wonders of the Cosmos -- 4) Palaeontology: Monsters from Lost Worlds -- 5) Archaeology: Ancient Secrets and Treasures -- 6) Earth and Atmospheric Sciences: Extreme Weather and Natural Disasters -- 7) Pseudoscience and Popular Beliefs -- Bibliography.-.
The shift from traditional documentary to “factual entertainment” television has been the subject of much debate and criticism, particularly with regard to the representation of science. New types of factual programmes, mixing documentary techniques with those from entertainment formats like drama, game-shows and reality TV, using spectacular visual effects produced by Computer Generated Imagery, and often blurring the boundaries between mainstream science and popular beliefs have sometimes come in for strident criticism. This books explores these issues, conducting close analysis of programmes across a range of sciences to see if criticisms of them as representing the “rotting carcass of science TV” are valid, or whether, when considered in relation to the principles, practices and communication strategies of different sciences they can be seen to offer a more complex and richer set of representations of science which construct them as objects of wonder, awe and the sublime.
Publisher:
Palgrave Macmillan UK : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan,
Publication Place:
London :
ISBN:
9781137385383
Subject:
Culture -- Study and teaching.
Communication.
Motion pictures and television.
Library science.
Cultural and Media Studies.
Library science.
Film and Television Studies.
Media Studies.
Contents:
Acknowledgements -- 1) Introduction: The Changing Landscape of Science Television -- 2) Analytical Frameworks: Science, Documentary and Factual Entertainment -- 3) Space Sciences: Wonders of the Cosmos -- 4) Palaeontology: Monsters from Lost Worlds -- 5) Archaeology: Ancient Secrets and Treasures -- 6) Earth and Atmospheric Sciences: Extreme Weather and Natural Disasters -- 7) Pseudoscience and Popular Beliefs -- Bibliography.-.
Physical Description:
IX, 228 p. 7 illus. online resource.
Electronic Location:
http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-38538-3
Publication Date:
2016.
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Title:
The faces of terrorism : social and psychological dimensions / Neil J. Smelser.
Science essentials
Author:
Smelser, Neil J.
General Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction -- Conditions and causes of terrorism -- Ideological bases of terrorist behavior -- Motivation, social origins, recruitment, groups, and the media in the terrorism process -- Anticipating, experiencing, and responding to terrorist attacks -- Discouraging terrorism -- The long-term international context of terrorism -- Appendix: The infernal problems of definition and designation.
Publisher:
Princeton University Press,
Publication Place:
Princeton, N.J. :
ISBN:
9780691133089 (hardcover : alk. paper)
Subject:
Terrorism.
Terrorism -- Social aspects.
Terrorism -- Psychological aspects.
Series:
Science essentials
Contents:
Introduction -- Conditions and causes of terrorism -- Ideological bases of terrorist behavior -- Motivation, social origins, recruitment, groups, and the media in the terrorism process -- Anticipating, experiencing, and responding to terrorist attacks -- Discouraging terrorism -- The long-term international context of terrorism -- Appendix: The infernal problems of definition and designation.
Physical Description:
p. cm.
Electronic Location:
http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0710/2007004837.html
Publication Date:
c2007.
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