ReAction!
Chemistry in the Movies
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP USA
- Date of Publication 10 September 2009
- ISBN 9780195326925
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages352 pages
- Size 236x160x30 mm
- Weight 717 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 17 black and white halftones, 57 line illustrations 0
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Short description:
ReAction! Chemistry in the Movies gives a scientist's and artist's response to the dark and bright sides of chemistry found in 140 films, most of them contemporary Hollywood feature films but also from a few others. This book explores the two movie faces of this supposedly neutral science.
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ReAction! gives a scientist's and artist's response to the dark and bright sides of chemistry found in 140 films, most of them contemporary Hollywood feature films but also a few documentaries, shorts, silents, and international films.
Even though there are some examples of screen chemistry between the actors and of behind-the-scenes special effects, this book is really about the chemistry when it is part of the narrative. It is about the dualities of Dr. Jekyll vs. inventor chemists, the invisible man vs. forensic chemists, chemical weapons vs. classroom chemistry, chemical companies that knowingly pollute the environment vs. altruistic research chemists trying to make the world a better place to live, and, finally, about people who choose to experiment with mind-altering drugs vs. the drug discovery process.
Little did Jekyll know when he brought the Hyde formula to his lips that his personality split would provide the central metaphor that would come to describe chemistry in the movies. This book explores the two movie faces of this supposedly neutral science. Watching films with chemical eyes, Dr. Jekyll is recast as a chemist engaged in psychopharmaceutical research but who becomes addicted to his own formula. He is balanced by the often wacky inventor chemists who make their discoveries by trial-and-error.
Table of Contents:
Introduction
1. Dr. Jekyll's Mysterious Transformative Formula
2. Invisibility Steals the Seen: Chemistry Creates Criminal Opportunities
3. Isomorphs of Paranoia: Chemical Arsenals
4. Bad Company: The Business of Toxicity
5. A Master/Slave Narrative: Drug Addiction and Psychoactives
6. Inventors and their Often Wacky Chemical Inventions
7. Hard Science = Hard Evidence: Forensic Chemistry and Chemical Detectives
8. Chem 101: Learning by Doing
9. Good News: Research & Medicinal Chemists Making a Difference
10. First, Do No Harm (but Before that Self-Experiment
Conclusion: Chemistry in the Movies
Appendix 1
Appendix 2
References
Index
