Titlebook: Science, Entertainment and Television Documentary; Vincent Campbell Book 2016 The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2016 science

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y with regard to the representation of science. New types of factual programming that combine documentary techniques with those of entertainment formats (such as drama, game-shows and reality TV) have come in for strident criticism. Often featuring spectacular visual effects produced by Computer Gen

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Introduction: The Changing Landscape of Television Science,nked to the development of multi-channel, multi-platform and international markets, the development of new genres of television programme (such as reality TV), and the emergence of new techniques such as computer-generated imagery (CGI). The chapter concludes with an overview of the aims and structure of the book.

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Analytical Frameworks: Science, Documentary and Factual Entertainment,hniques used in factual television depictions of science, and that rather than as vehicles for the simple transmission of scientific knowledge, analysis shows how they often represent science as spectacular, awe-inspiring and sublime.

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Palaeontology: Monsters from Lost Worlds,w tensions between science and entertainment in modern-day extinct animal television programmes reflect long-standing patterns of cultural understanding of ‘monsters’ from lost worlds, linked to aesthetic traditions in the representation of deep time.

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Earth and Atmospheric Sciences: Extreme Weather and Natural Disasters,scientific experts. In focusing on disaster impacts, the destruction of built capital and imaging disasters through the use of CGI Campbell argues ‘weather porn’ programmes are part of the cultural tradition of the apocalyptic sublime response to extreme weather and natural disasters.

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Pseudoscience and Popular Beliefs,ry techniques like CGI, developing their own techniques for making claims to serious investigation of popular beliefs like the use of night-vision cameras. Campbell concludes that their strategies and prominence on factual television channels represent the real risks to television science.

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Introduction: The Changing Landscape of Television Science,nment television. The chapter begins with an outline of concerns about the current landscape of television science, and then offers an overview of the historical development of science in factual television tracing the key organisations, programmes and figures in the development of science documenta

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