Science, Entertainment and Television Documentary [electronic resource] / by Vincent Campbell.
Science, Entertainment and Television Documentary
Erişim Adresi
ISBN
9781137385383 978-1-137-38538-3
Yer Numarası
EK/2588
Yazar
Basım Bildirimi
1st ed. 2016.
Yayın Bilgisi
London : Palgrave Macmillan UK : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016.
Fiziksel Niteleme
IX, 228 p. 7 illus. online resource.
İçindekiler Notu
Acknowledgements -- 1) Introduction: The Changing Landscape of Science Television -- 2) Analytical Frameworks: Science, Documentary and Factual Entertainment -- 3) Space Sciences: Wonders of the Cosmos -- 4) Palaeontology: Monsters from Lost Worlds -- 5) Archaeology: Ancient Secrets and Treasures -- 6) Earth and Atmospheric Sciences: Extreme Weather and Natural Disasters -- 7) Pseudoscience and Popular Beliefs -- Bibliography.-.
Özet, vb.
The shift from traditional documentary to “factual entertainment” television has been the subject of much debate and criticism, particularly with regard to the representation of science. New types of factual programmes, mixing documentary techniques with those from entertainment formats like drama, game-shows and reality TV, using spectacular visual effects produced by Computer Generated Imagery, and often blurring the boundaries between mainstream science and popular beliefs have sometimes come in for strident criticism. This books explores these issues, conducting close analysis of programmes across a range of sciences to see if criticisms of them as representing the “rotting carcass of science TV” are valid, or whether, when considered in relation to the principles, practices and communication strategies of different sciences they can be seen to offer a more complex and richer set of representations of science which construct them as objects of wonder, awe and the sublime.
Konu
Library science.
Motion pictures.
Television broadcasting.
Communication.
Library Science.
Film and Television Studies.
Media and Communication.
Motion pictures.
Television broadcasting.
Communication.
Library Science.
Film and Television Studies.
Media and Communication.
Kurum Adı
SpringerLink (Online service)