Science on American television a history /
Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette.
- Chicago ; London : The University of Chicago Press, (c)2013.
- 1 online resource (pages)
Includes bibliographies and index.
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.
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Science television programs--History. Television in science education--History.