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| Document Type: | Book |
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| All Authors / Contributors: |
Marcel C LaFollette |
| ISBN: | 9780226921990 0226921999 |
| OCLC Number: | 777002156 |
| Description: | x, 306 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| 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. |
| Responsibility: | Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette. |
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"What many scholars attempt to do, Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette accomplishes. Picking up where Science on the Air left off, Science on American Television explores the peculiar relationship between broadcast television and popular science education, and its history of false starts, wrong turns, and cultural touchstones." (Matthew H. Hersch, University of Pennsylvania)" Read more...
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