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Paperback Mad, Bad and Dangerous?: The Scientist and the Cinema Book

ISBN: 1861892853

ISBN13: 9781861892850

Mad, Bad and Dangerous?: The Scientist and the Cinema

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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... This description may be from another edition of this product.

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How the Movies Made Our Image of the Scientist

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 through. Still, I was impressed by the wide scope of Mr. Frayling's work and the well-drawn conclusions he makes...

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"You're Fu Manchu, aren't you?" "My friends call me DOCTOR."

Mad, Bad and Dangerous: The Scientist and the Cinema is about scientists in the movies, but not just about MAD scientists in the movies. Christopher Fraying covers not only fictional new Prometheuses like Dr. Frankenstein and Andre Delambre (the scientist whose malfunctioning teleportation device turned him into The Fly), but "real" scientists like Madame Curie and Louis Pasteur. Somewhere on the seesaw between "mad" movie...

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