[Mobile book] Mad, Bad and Dangerous?: The Scientist and the Cinema
☆ Christopher Frayling ☆
| #3449361 in Books | Reaktion Books | 2005-12-15 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 9.00 x.90 x6.00l,1.43 | File Name: 1861892551 | 240 pages |
||8 of 8 people found the following review helpful.| How the Movies Made Our Image of the Scientist|By Timothy Haugh|In this book, Mad, Bad and Dangerous? The Scientist and the Cinema, Mr. Frayling has put together a fascinating study of how public perceptions of the scientist have been molded by movies. As a long time physics and math teachers well as a movie-lover, I am familiar with much of the background material he goes th|From Publishers Weekly|Frayling (Vampyres), chairman of the Arts Council of England, goes beyond horror films like Frankenstein and The Island of Dr. Moreau to survey Hollywood's scientist-as-savior films of the 1930s and '40s (Madame Cu
From Victor Frankenstein to Dr. Moreau to Doc Brown in Back to the Future, the scientist has been a puzzling, fascinating, and threatening presence in popular culture. From films we have learned that scientists are either evil maniacal geniuses or bumbling saviors of society. Mad, Bad and Dangerous? puts this dichotomy to the test, offering a wholly engaging yet not uncritical history of the cinematic portrayal of scientists.
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