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Book Description: Reaktion Books, 2006. Paperback. Book Condition: New. Mint condition; Bookseller Inventory # mon0000631050

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Book Description: Reaktion Books, United Kingdom, 2006. Paperback. Book Condition: New. 234 x 156 mm. Brand New Book with Free Worldwide Delivery. Since its origin cinema has had an uneasy relationship with science and technology: scientists are almost always impossibly mad or impossibly saintly, and technology is nearly always very bad for you. In "Mad, Bad and Dangerous", Christopher Frayling explores the genealogy of the film scientist in films made in Western Europe, and especially in Hollywood after the 1930s, showing how in film the scientist has often been used to represent the prevailing phobias of the time. In the 1950s, for example, films were dominated by the fear of botched atomic research, and were a showcase of mutated, outsized creatures and radioactive zombies. Since Hitchcock's "The Birds", however, the role of the scientist has been less straightforward, and by the 1970s damage to the environment and the spread of diseases were the predominant consequences of science gone wrong. Scientists - and the corporations that controlled them - became the 'baddies'.The author also examines in parallel the portrayal of real-life scientists in the movies, noting how they are in the main depicted as misfits, immersed in their work, sacrificing any normal life to the interests of science, yet distrusted by the scientific establishment. Interestingly, the cinematic portrayal of fictional and real-life scientists follow very similar dramatic conventions, and Frayling concludes that the mad scientist and the saintly one are two sides of the same Hollywood coin. Bookseller Inventory # AAC9781861892850

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Book Description: Reaktion Books. Paperback. Book Condition: new. BRAND NEW, Mad, Bad and Dangerous?: The Scientist and the Cinema, Christopher Frayling, Since its origin cinema has had an uneasy relationship with science and technology: scientists are almost always impossibly mad or impossibly saintly, and technology is nearly always very bad for you. In "Mad, Bad and Dangerous", Christopher Frayling explores the genealogy of the film scientist in films made in Western Europe, and especially in Hollywood after the 1930s, showing how in film the scientist has often been used to represent the prevailing phobias of the time. In the 1950s, for example, films were dominated by the fear of botched atomic research, and were a showcase of mutated, outsized creatures and radioactive zombies. Since Hitchcock's "The Birds", however, the role of the scientist has been less straightforward, and by the 1970s damage to the environment and the spread of diseases were the predominant consequences of science gone wrong. Scientists - and the corporations that controlled them - became the 'baddies'. The author also examines in parallel the portrayal of real-life scientists in the movies, noting how they are in the main depicted as misfits, immersed in their work, sacrificing any normal life to the interests of science, yet distrusted by the scientific establishment. Interestingly, the cinematic portrayal of fictional and real-life scientists follow very similar dramatic conventions, and Frayling concludes that the mad scientist and the saintly one are two sides of the same Hollywood coin. Bookseller Inventory # B9781861892850

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Book Description: Reaktion Books, 2006. Paperback. Book Condition: New. 9.18 by 6 inches. (00239 pages) [ships from USA takes 8-14 days to Europe] illustrated Lang=English accessory:NO ACCESSORY (Paperback ). Bookseller Inventory # AF1861892853

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Book Description: Reaktion Books, 2006. Paperback. Book Condition: Brand New. 1st edition. 239 pages. 9.25x6.25x0.75 inches. In Stock. Bookseller Inventory # x-1861892853

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Book Description: Reaktion Books, United Kingdom, 2006. Soft cover. Book Condition: New. Good fun. From the publisher: '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. Christopher Frayling traces the genealogy of the scientist in film, showing how the scientist has often embodied the predominant anxieties of a particular historical moment. The fear of nuclear holocaust in the 1950s gave rise to a rash of radioactive-mutant horror movies, while the possible dangers of cloning and biotechnology in the 1990s manifested themselves in "Jurassic Park. "During these eras, the scientist's actions have been viewed through a lens of fascination and fear. In the past few decades, with increased public awareness of environmental issues and of the impact of technology on nature, the scientist has been transformed once again?into a villainous agent of money-hungry corporate powers. "Mad, Bad and Dangerous?" also examines biographical depictions of actual scientists, illuminating how they are often portrayed as social misfits willing to sacrifice everything to the interests of science. Drawing on such classic and familiar films as "Frankenstein," "Metropolis," and "The Wizard of Oz," Frayling brings social and film history together to paint a much larger picture of the evolving value of science and technology to society. A fascinating study of American culture and film, "Mad, Bad and Dangerous?" resurrects the scientists of latenight movies and drive-in theaters and gives them new life as cultural talismans.'. Bookseller Inventory # 000051

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Book Description: Paperback. Book Condition: New. 1st. 160mm x 17mm x 233mm. 239 pages. 0.535. Bookseller Inventory # 9781861892850

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Book Description: Paperback. Book Condition: New. 1st. 160mm x 17mm x 233mm. 239 pages. 0.535. Bookseller Inventory # 9781861892850

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