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1 online resource (pages) |
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data file rda |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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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. |
| Note |
Print version record. |
| Summary |
As television emerged as a major cultural and economic force, many imagined that the medium would enhance civic education for topics like science. And, indeed, television soon offered a breathtaking banquet of scientific images and ideas-both factual and fictional. Mr. Wizard performed experiments with milk bottles. Viewers watched live coverage of solar eclipses and atomic bomb blasts. Television cameras followed astronauts to the moon, Carl Sagan through the Cosmos, and Jane Goodall into the jungle. Via electrons and embryos, blood testing and blasting caps, fictional Frankensteins and chatt. |
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Science television programs -- History.
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Television in science education -- History.
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PERFORMING ARTS -- Television -- Reference.
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Science television programs. (OCoLC)fst01108798
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Television in science education. (OCoLC)fst01146933
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History.
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Electronic books.
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Print version: LaFollette, Marcel C. (Marcel Chotkowski). Science on American television. Chicago ; London : The University of Chicago Press, 2013, ©2013 9780226921990 (DLC) 2012003668 (OCoLC)777002156 |
| ISBN |
9780226922010 (electronic bk.) |
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0226922014 (electronic bk.) |
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