Format:
1 Online-Ressource (xv, 281 Seiten)
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ISBN:
9783030830434
Series Statement:
Palgrave studies in science and popular culture
Content:
Intro -- Preface -- Contents -- Abbreviations -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Chapter 1: Introduction -- The Evolutionary Epic and Progressive Narratives in Science -- Synthetic Narratives in the History of Biology -- Media Histories and Studies of Science -- Humanist Blockbusters -- Approaches to Studying Media -- Surveying British Broadcasting on Evolution -- Summary of the Argument -- References -- Chapter 2: Situating the Story: The Early Years of Evolution on the Wireless -- The Stream of Life -- Controlling the Content, While Developing the Format(s) -- Post-war Consolidations and Contestations -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 3: Evolving Content for the Small Screen, from Radio to Early Television Formats -- Expanding the Cast -- Constructing an Official Institutional Position on Evolution -- Evolution on the Small Screen -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 4: The Most Malleable of Minds: Evolution in Educational Broadcasting -- Religious Contestation of Early Educational Radio on Evolution -- A Short History of BBC Educational Broadcasting -- Educating the Grown-Ups -- Televised Educational Output -- Evolution on Adult Education Television -- The BBC and the Open University -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 5: Imagining Evolution: Drama and Science Fiction -- Evolutionary Themes in Early Radio Dramas -- Orwell, Darwin and the Dramatisation of the Past -- Wells, Ethics and Dystopian Futures -- Evolutionary Themes in British Science Fiction Television -- Kneale and Literary British Science Fiction -- Newman and the Rise of the Serial -- Pedler and Techno-Scientific Anxieties -- Counterculture, Doom and Declensionism -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 6: Humanist Blockbusters: Depicting the Evolutionary Epic on Television -- The Ascent of Man -- Producing Ascent -- A Popular Success, the Reception of Ascent.
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Additional Edition:
ISBN 9783030830427
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9783030830427
Language:
English
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