Staging Science: Scientific Performance on Street, Stage and Screen

List of illustrations.- Acknowledgements.- Notes on Contributors.- Introduction: Imaginative Mobilities; Martin Willis.- 1. Making the Most Beautiful Experiment: Reconstructing Gassiot's Cascade; Iwan Rhys Morus.- 2. Science in the City: Scientific Display and Urban Performance in Victorian Travel Guides to London; Martin Willis.- 3. Of Hats and Scientific Laughter; Tiffany Watt Smith.- 4. 'You can't make a film about mice just by going out into a meadow and looking at Mice': Staging as Knowledge Production in Natural History Film-making; Jean-Baptiste Gouyon.- 5. 'Unmediated' Science Plays: Seeing What Sticks; Kirsten E. Shepherd-Barr.- Afterword; Bernard Lightman.- Notes.- Bibliography.- Index.-

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1137499931
• ISBN13: 9781137499936
• Release Date: November 2015
• Publisher: Palgrave Pivot
• Length: 140 Pages
• Weight: 0.69 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 8.6"