Science on American television
Subtitle: a history
By: Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette
Publisher: The University of Chicago Press
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Chicago; London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 306
ISBN-13: 9780226921990; 9780226922010
Copyright date: 2013
Subjects: Science television programs; Television in science education; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Inventions and dreams; title: Experimenting with illusion; title: Elementary education, basic economics; title: Dramatizing science; title: Taking the audience's pulse; title: Saving planet earth: fictions and facts; title: Adjusting the lens: documentaries; title: Monsters and diamonds: the price of exclusive access; title: In splendid isolation: the public's television; title: Defining what's new(s) about science; title: Entrepreneurial popularization; title: Warning: children in the audience; title: Rarae aves: television's female scientists; title: The Smithsonian's world: exclusivity and power; title: All science, all the time.