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Science on American television : a history /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: LaFollette, Marcel C. (Marcel Chotkowski)
Corporate Author: ebrary, Inc
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Chicago ; London : University of Chicago Press, 2013.
Subjects:
Science television programs > History.
Television in science education > History.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • 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.