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Mad, Bad and Dangerous?: The Scientist and the Cinema - Frayling, Christopher
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Since its origin cinema has had an uneasy relationship with science and technology: scientists are almost always impossibly mad or impossibly saintly, and technology is nearly always very bad for you. In "Mad, Bad and Dangerous", Christopher Frayling explores the genealogy of the film scientist in films made in Western Europe, and especially in Hollywood after the 1930s, showing how in film the scientist has often been used to represent the prevailing phobias of the time. In the 1950s, for example, films were dominated by ...

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Mad, Bad and Dangerous?: The Scientist and the Cinema 2006, Reaktion Books

ISBN-13: 9781861892850

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Mad, Bad and Dangerous?: The Scientist and the Cinema 2005, Reaktion Books, London, England

ISBN-13: 9781861892553

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