Science on American television : a history / Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette.

Science on American television (Online)

Science on American Television: A History

2013

Inventions and dreams -- Experimenting with illusion -- Elementary education, basic economics -- Dramatizing science -- Taking the audience's pulse -- Saving planet earth : fictions and facts -- Adjusting the lens : documentaries -- Monsters and diamonds : the price of exclusive access -- In splendid isolation : the public's television -- Defining what's new(s) about science -- Entrepreneurial popularization -- Warning : children in the audience -- Rarae aves : television's female scientists -- The Smithsonian's world : exclusivity and power -- All science, all the time.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 277-288) and index.