Lab Coats in Hollywood: Science, Scientists, and Cinema

by David A. Kirby

Book Overview

How science consultants make movie science plausible, in films ranging from 2001: A Space Odyssey to Finding Nemo.

Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey, released in 1968, is perhaps the most scientifically accurate film ever produced. The film presented such a plausible, realistic vision of space flight that many moon hoax proponents believe that Kubrick staged the 1969 moon landing using the same studios and techniques...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262014785
• ISBN13: 9780262014786
• Release Date: January 2011
• Publisher: MIT Press
• Length: 265 Pages
• Weight: 2.86 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.3" x 9.2"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher