Exemplary Lives: Biographies of Scientists on The Screen  

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Elena, Alberto

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Public Understanding of Science vol. 2 no. 3 (Jul. 1993), page 205-223.
Fulltext: 205PUS23.pdf (1.05MB)

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Cinema has emerged in the twentieth century as one of the most powerful vehicles for the popularization of science. Medical melodramas, sciencefiction films and biopics can be used to advantage by historians and sociologists of science alike in order to r€WnStNCt the always elusive public opinion. As a subgenre of historical films, biopics constitute a vigorous attempt to communicate to the lay public the ethos conventionally associated with scientific endeavour. Much more than a simple illustration of the lives of great scientists, biopics are one of the besl indicaton of public attitudes towards science and technology in contemporary society.

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