Really interesting article in today's Chronicle of Higher Education about the increasing collaboration between academic science and Hollywood. ARTICLE. Particularly important--this isn't just about filmmakers mining scientific knowledge and know-how, but about science recognizing it's own existence within mediated fields of knowledge and its dependence on film (and other media) as a key shaper of debates and public understanding.
David A. Kirby is one of the scholars mentioned. Here's his website, which features some interesting essays about the interaction between science and cinema.
Also of interest, the National Academy of Sciences 2-yr-old program--The Science and Entertainment Exchange. Check out the website here. Related video below, featuring Seth Macfarlane.
Other related notes:
Recent symposium at the UPenn Annenberg School of Communication on the "performative" dimension of science--featuring "a wide range of scholars and leading practitioners in the area of the history of performance, science and scientific performance to discuss how persuasive rhetorical skills and public performance are central to the business of making scientific knowledge real."
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