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. Kubrick's...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262518708
• ISBN13: 9780262518703
• Release Date: February 2013
• Publisher: MIT Press
• Length: 280 Pages
• Weight: 0.97 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.8" x 8.6"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher