Overview
- Continues the entertaining and informative tour of how tv and movies transport hot topics in science to the public
- Includes extracts from interviews with a dozen and more well known writers, producers, and directors
- With a foreword by Zack Stentz writer of X-Men: First Class and Thor
Part of the book series: Science and Fiction (SCIFICT)
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Table of contents (11 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
Informative, entertaining and upbeat, this book continues Grazier and Cass's exploration of how technology, science, and scientists are portrayed in Hollywood productions. Both big and small-screen productions are featured and their science content illuminated—first by the authors and subsequently by a range of experts from science and the film world. Starring roles in this volume are played by, among other things, computers (human and mechanical), artificial intelligences, robots, and spacecraft. Interviews with writers, producers, and directors of acclaimed science-themed films stand side by side with the perspectives of scientists, science fiction authors, and science advisors. The result is a stimulating and informative reading experience for the layperson and professional scientist or engineer alike. The book begins with a foreword by Zack Stentz, who co-wrote X-Men: First Class and Thor, and is currently a writer/producer on CW’s The Flash.
Authors and Affiliations
About the authors
Stephen Cass is an Irish science and technology journalist based in New York City. He has been an editor at Discover magazine and MIT Technology Review, and has written for outlets such as Popular Science and Nautilus. He has also edited several science fiction anthologies. He is currently geeking it to the max as a senior editor at IEEE Spectrum.
Kevin R. Grazier, Ph.D. is currently a professor of computer science at the United States Military Academy. Prior to West Point, Grazier was a research scientist for fifteen years at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, working on the Cassini/Huygens Mission to Saturn and Titan. Still an active researcher, he performs large-scale computer simulations of early Solar System dynamics and evolution. Grazier served as the science advisor for the features Gravity and Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales, as well as for the television series Eureka, Defiance, and the Peabody-Award-winning Battlestar Galactica.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Hollyweird Science: The Next Generation
Book Subtitle: From Spaceships to Microchips
Authors: Kevin R. Grazier, Stephen Cass
Series Title: Science and Fiction
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-54215-7
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Physics and Astronomy, Physics and Astronomy (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing AG 2017
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-54213-3Published: 09 August 2017
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-54215-7Published: 02 August 2017
Series ISSN: 2197-1188
Series E-ISSN: 2197-1196
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XV, 420
Number of Illustrations: 16 b/w illustrations, 126 illustrations in colour
Topics: Popular Science in Physics, Societal Aspects of Physics, Outreach and Education, Science Education, Performing Arts, Knowledge - Discourse