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Mad, Bad and Dangerous? The Scientist and the Cinema
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Mad, Bad and Dangerous? The Scientist and the Cinema Paperback - 2006 - 1st Edition

by Frayling, Christopher


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At the climax of The Wizard of Oz, Dorothy and her three new friends - Scarecrow, Tin Man and Lion - arrive at the Emerald City, to ask the great and powerful wizard for their hearts' desires.

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  • Title Mad, Bad and Dangerous? The Scientist and the Cinema
  • Author Frayling, Christopher
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition number 1st
  • Edition 1
  • Pages 240
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Reaktion Books, NULL
  • Date September 5, 2006
  • ISBN 9781861892850

About the author

Christopher Frayling is rector of the Royal College of Art, London, chairman of the Arts Council of England, and the author of Spaghetti Westerns and Vampyres: Lord Byron to Count Dracula, among others.
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Reaktion Books, 2006. Trade Paperback. Very good paperback copy. 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… Read More
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Reaktion Books, 2006. Softcover. Very Good. Illustrated glossy softcovers. 239 pp. with index. Illustrated with photos and reproductions. Very good or somewhat better, slight bumping to the outer tips of the front cover. The author explores the genealogy of the cinematic scientist in films made in Hollywood and in western Europe. The fictional scientist in film was often used to represent the prevailing phobias of the time: in the 1920s it was poison gas; by the 1950s it ws botched atomic research; later it was genetic engineering.
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