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Hollyweird Science: The Next Generation: From Spaceships to Microchips: Science and Fiction

Autor Kevin R. Grazier, Stephen Cass
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 9 aug 2017
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.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9783319542133
ISBN-10: 3319542133
Pagini: 269
Ilustrații: XV, 420 p. 142 illus., 126 illus. in color.
Dimensiuni: 155 x 235 x 29 mm
Greutate: 0.61 kg
Ediția:1st ed. 2017
Editura: Springer International Publishing
Colecția Springer
Seria Science and Fiction

Locul publicării:Cham, Switzerland

Cuprins

Preface: For the Sake of Argument.- English vs. Sciencespeak.- The Many-Body Problem: The Culture of Science.- The Scarecrow's Blunder: Mathematics and Statistics.- Let's Get Digital: Computers in Cinema.- Heavy Metal: AI and Robots in Cinema.- Boldly Going: Cinematic Spaceships.- The Gravity of the Situations: Orbits.- Getting from There to Here: Navigation in Space.- Life. In. Spaaaaace.- Putting Science in, Not Taking Drama Out: The Culture of Hollywood.

Notă biografică

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.

Textul de pe ultima copertă

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.

Caracteristici

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

Recenzii

“Hollyweird Science is written for a broad audience. It has enough depth – by its inclusion of equations, such as those for kinetic energy, the Schwarzschild radius, Wien’s law, length contraction, and time dilation – that it can be used in an introductory physics course or a first-year undergraduate seminar. … Hollyweird Science is an entertaining read for those who enjoy science fiction media and want to know more about the reality behind the cinematic magic.” (Lisa Will, Physics Today, Vol. 69 (9), September, 2016)
“This book looks at the science that is used in Hollywood science fiction film productions, from both the angle of the scientist and the storyteller. … This book is not a light read, but certainly an original and satisfying one. … Overall there is plenty of fascinating and original material for those who might wish to extend their space horizons.” (Odyssey, September, 2016)
“Grazier and Cass are clearly fans of the genre. The media subtleties of heat and temperature, mass and weight, energy, force and power, gravity and radiation are investigated in detail. ... This is a fascinating, informative, and entertaining book. It is well illustrated, well referenced, and extremely thought-provoking. I will look at the media in a new light.” (David W. Hughes, The Observatory, Vol. 136 (1252), June, 2016)
“The reader will quickly appreciate that the book is not just a simple list of cinema bloopers. … book’s details provide enough depth of knowledge to allow the reader to hold their own at lunch time conversations when the topic swings around to the science in the latest show or movie. … From it, you can make up your own mind on just what you’re ready to accept as entertaining and what is just too much expectation by the storyteller.” (Mark Mortimer, Universe Today, February, 2016)