Screen LibraryMaster mechanics & wicked wizards：images of the American scientist as hero and villain from colonial times to the present
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University of Massachusetts Press,
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| Publisher Address: | Amherst |
| Publication Dates: | c2009. |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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| Carrier Form: | 304 p., [18] p. of plates: ill. ; 25 cm. |
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9781558497023 (lib. cloth : alk. paper) 1558497021 (lib. cloth : alk. paper) 9781558497030 (pbk.) 155849703X (pbk. : alk. paper) |
| Index Number: | N097 |
| CLC: | N097.12 |
| Call Number: | N097.12/A425 |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. Simon pure amateurs : American scientists of the early nineteenth century -- Sex and the single mad scientist : domesticating scientific passion in nineteenth-century American fiction -- A cabinet of wonders : selling American science in the nineteenth century -- The world of tomorrow : technocracy as utopia in the age of pulps -- The incredible shrinking scientist : how the heroes of Los Alamos became internationalist traitors -- Invaders with Ph.D.'s : aliens, commies, and eggheads in science fiction films of the 1950s -- Fallout : politics and paranoia after the bomb -- Rocket science : (their) Sputniks + (our) dudniks = NASA -- Tom Swift and the cosmic astronauts : pilots, pitchmen, warriors, or mechanics? -- America vs. the evil empire(s) : good astronauts, bad aliens, and the battle for the high frontier -- Looking backward : useful vs. wicked inventing in colonial America -- Déjà vu all over again : fear, funding, and ignorance in contemporary scientific "controversies." |