Mad, Bad and Dangerous? - 9781861892850

Mad, Bad and Dangerous?: The Scientist and the Cinema\nby Christopher Frayling\nPaperback\nEnglish\n\nBrand new copy from BookCurl \u2013 the UK independent online bookseller.\n\n------------------------------\nBook details\n------------------------------\nAuthor: Christopher Frayling\nTitle: Mad, Bad and Dangerous?: The Scientist and the Cinema\nFormat: Paperback\nLanguage: English\nTopic: Films, cinema\nPublisher: Reaktion Books\nPublication year: 2006\nISBN-13: 9781861892850\nISBN-10: 1861892853\n\n------------------------------\nDescription\n------------------------------\nSince its origin cinema has had an uneasy relationship with science and technology: scientists are almost always impossibly mad or impossibly saintly, and technology is nearly always very bad for you. In \""Mad, Bad and Dangerous\"", Christopher Frayling explores the genealogy of the film scientist in films made in Western Europe, and especially in Hollywood after the 1930s, showing how in film the scientist has .