| HOLLYWOOD SCIENCE Movies, Science, and the End of the World Sidney Perkowitz New York: Columbia University Press, December 2007 |
Rating: 5.0 High |
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| ISBN-13 978-0-231-14280-9 | ||||
| ISBN-10 0-231-14280-3 | 255p. | HC | $27.95 | |
The above list contains all the U.S. titles and editions, per an e-mail from Dr. Perkowitz. There are also editions published overseas (in e.g. Britain, Germany, Korea, Taiwan) and many are available in Kindle editions. NOTE: AMAZON.COM lists him as a co-author of several books on cinema, and my original version reflected this. He assures me it is a mistake on Amazon's part.
In this table I give the books that looked interesting to me in Dr. Perkowitz's reading list. The number at the left is the chapter of his book to which they relate. Note that these topic headings are my own. Also, I added a few titles; these are indicated by the "N/A" (highlighted blue) in the chapter-number cell. I have reviews on-line for these extra titles.
| Science, Cinema, and Culture | ||
| 1 | M. Keith Booker Alternate America: Science Fiction Film and American Culture Westport: Praeger, Feb. 2006 |
978-0275983956 |
| 1 | Annette Kuhn (ed.) Alien Zone: Cultural Theory and Contemporary Science Fiction Cinema London: Verso, May 1990 |
978-0860912781 |
| 1 | Annette Kuhn (ed.) Alien Zone II: The Spaces of Science Fiction Cinema London: Verso, Dec. 1999 |
978-1859847466 |
| 1 | Sean Redmond (ed.) Liquid Metal: The Science Fiction Film Reader New York: Wallflower Press , Jan. 2005 |
978-1903364888 |
| 1 | Gregg Rickman (ed.) The Science Fiction Film Reader New York: Limelight Editions, July 2004 |
978-0879109943 |
| 1 | Vivian Carol Sobchack Screening Space: The American Science Fiction Film (2nd ed.) New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, Sep. 1997 |
978-0813524924 |
| 1 | J. P. Telotte Science Fiction Film (Genres in American Cinema) New York: Cambridge University Press, August 2001 |
978-0521593724 |
| Life Out There — Intelligent and Otherwise | ||
| 2 | David Harry Grinspoon Lonely Planets: The Natural Philosophy of Alien Life New York: HarperCollins, November 2003 |
978-0-06-018540-4 |
| Rocks that Go Bump from the Night (Bumps from the Blackness) | ||
| 3 | Michael J. S. Belton, Thomas H. Morgan, Nalin H. Samarasinha, Donald K. Yeomans (Eds.) Mitigation of Hazardous Comets and Asteroids Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, Dec. 2004 |
HC 978-0521827645 PB 978-0521173322 (Mar. 2011) |
| 3 | Dana Desonie Cosmic Collisions New York: Owl Books/Henry Holt & Co., Mar. 1996 |
978-0805038439 |
| Our Angry Blue Planet | ||
| 4 | Ernest Zebrowski Perils of a Restless Planet: Scientific Perspectives on Natural Disasters Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, May 1999 |
PB 978-0521654883 |
| Ravaging Rays, Perilous Particles, Runaway Reactors | ||
| 5 | Richard Rhodes Dark Sun: The Making of the Hydrogen Bomb New York: Simon & Schuster, Aug. 1995 |
978-0684804002 |
| 5 | Richard Rhodes The Making of the Atomic Bomb New York: Simon & Schuster, Feb. 1987 |
978-0671441333 |
| N / A |
John G. Fuller We Almost Lost Detroit New York: Reader's Digest Press, 1975 |
978-0-88349-070-9 |
| N / A |
Joseph G. Morone & Edward J. Woodhouse THE DEMISE OF NUCLEAR ENERGY? Lessons for Democratic Control of Technology New Haven: Yale University Press, April 1989 |
978-0-300-04449-2 |
| N / A |
Todd Tucker Atomic America: How a Deadly Explosion and a Feared Admiral Changed the Course of Nuclear History New York: Free Press, 2009 |
978-1-4165-4433-3 |
| Genes and Germs | ||
| 6 | Robert DeSalle and David Lindley The Science of Jurassic Park and the Lost World: or, How To Build a Dinosaur New York: Basic Books, 1997 |
978-0002558938 |
| 6 | Richard Preston The Hot Zone New York: Anchor Books, July 1995 |
978-0385479561 |
| 6 | Lisa Yount Biotechnology and Genetic Engineering (3rd ed.) New York: Facts on File, Apr. 2008 |
978-0816072170 |
| Compugarchy, aka Robots Rule | ||
| 7 | Rodney A. Brooks Flesh and Machines: How Robots Will Change Us New York: Pantheon, Feb. 2002 |
PB 978-0375420795 |
| 7 | Antonio R. Damasio Descartes' Error: Emotion, Reason, and the Human Brain New York: [HarperCollins] Putnam, Sep. 1994 |
PB 978-0399138942 |
| 7 | J. P. Telotte Replications: A Robotic History of the Science Fiction Film Urbana: University of Illinois Press, Oct. 1995 |
978-0252021770 |
| Living for the Laboratory | ||
| 8 | Christopher Frayling Mad, Bad, and Dangerous?: The Scientist and the Cinema London: Reaktion Books, Dec. 2005 |
PB 978-1861892553 |
| 8 | David Lindley Where Does the Weirdness Go? Why Quantum Mechanics Is Strange, But Not as Strange as You Think New York: Basic Books, Mar. 1997 |
PB 978-0465067862 |
| 8 | James Longuski The Seven Secrets of How To Think Like a Rocket Scientist New York: Springer, Oct. 2006 |
978-0387308760 |
| 8 | Paula E. Stephan & Sharon G. Levin Striking the Mother Lode in Science: The Importance of Age, Place, and Time New York: Oxford University Press, June 1992 |
PB 978-1861892553 |
| 8 | Sharon Traweek Beamtimes and Lifetimes: The World of High Energy Physicists Cambridge: Harvard University Press, Dec. 1988 |
PB 978-0674063471 |
| Science Bad To the Core | ||
| 9 | Harry Medved & Michael Medved The Golden Turkey Awards: Nominees and Winners, the Worst Achievements in Hollywood History New York: Putnam, April 1980 |
PB 9780399504631 |
| Let Us Not To the Marriage of True Science (with Feature Films) Admit Impediments | ||
| 10 | Leroy W. Dubeck, Suzanne E. Moshier, Judith E. Boss Fantastic Voyages: Learning Science through Science Fiction Films (2nd ed.) New York: Springer, Nov. 2003 |
PB 978-0387004402 |
| 10 | Mark C. Glassy The Biology of Science Fiction Cinema Jefferson, NC: McFarland, Apr. 2001 |
PB 978-0786409983 |
Finally, I found in trying out the Web sites Dr. Perkowitz recommends that quite a few had moved. Such is the way of links. Hence this table, showing the original URL, and where applicable an updated one. Naturally I used the latest URLs for the links I made. I believe I captured every working site. I did not include the Bad Cinema Society because it disbanded in 2007. Its list remains on-line, but is now open to public additions; therefore it's not worth visiting. Also, I found no trace of the "We All Use Math Every Day" site (but see below), and the Lunar & Planetary Lab site is forbidden.
| Site Name | Original URL | Updated URL (March 2021) |
|---|---|---|
| Hiroshima and Nagasaki: Atom Bomb Casualties | http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/abomb/mp10.htm | http://avalon.law.yale.edu/20th_century/mp10.asp |
| CBW: Programs Past and Present | http://cns.miis.edu/research/cbw/possess.htm | http://cns.miis.edu/cbw/possess.htm |
| A History of Genetic Engineering | http://www.ifgene.org/history.htm | Reverted to original URL |
| Scientists and M.D.s in the Movies: A Bibliography | http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/MRC/scientistsbib.html | Not found |
| Academy Awards Databases | http://www.oscars.org/awardsdatabase | https://www.oscars.org/oscars/awards-databases-0 |
| History of the Saturn Awards | http://www.saturnawards.org/history_academy.html | http://www.saturnawards.org/Saturn-Awards-History.php |
| American Film Institute: 100 Years | http://www.afi.com/tvevents/100years/movies.aspx | https://www.afi.com/afi-lists/ |
| Cinema and Science | http://www.cisci.net/ | Repurposed. Try searching on the title. |
| Insultingly Stupid Movie Physics | http://www.intuitor.com/moviephysics/ | No update needed |
| Phil Plait's Bad Movie Page | http://www.badastronomy.com/bad/movies/index.html | No update needed |
Note that Phil Plait has a page for good movies too. Five Million Years To Earth is on it.
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