Staging science : scientific performance on street, stage and screen /
Contributor(s): Willis, Martin [editor.].
Series: Palgrave studies in literature, science, and medicine: Publisher: London : Palgrave Macmillan, 2016Description: xi, 140 pages ; 22 cm.Content type: text | text Media type: unmediated | unmediated Carrier type: volume | volumeISBN: 9781137499936; 9781137499936:; 1137499931.Subject(s): Communication in science | Drama -- History and criticism
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Includes bibliographic references and index.
Acknowledgements -- Introduction : imaginative mobilities / Martin Willis -- Making the most beautiful experiment : reconstructing Gassiot's Cascade / Iwan Rhys Morus -- Science in the city : scientific display and urban performance in Victorian travel guides to London / Martin Willis -- Of hats and scientific laughter / Tiffany Watt Smith -- `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 -- `Unmediated' science plays : seeing what sticks / Kirsten E. Shepherd-Barr -- Afterword / Bernard Lightman -- Index.
Examining scientific performances across two centuries, from the early nineteenth century to the present day, this text opens debate on how scientific activity, both historical and contemporary, might be understood in the context of performance studies and the imaginative acts required to stage engaging performances.