Mad, Bad, and Dangerous, The Scientist And The Cinema by Christopher

Black cloth hard cover book with dust jacket. First published in 2005. From the inside dust jacket; Since its origin, cinema has had an uneasy relationship with science and technology: scientists are almost always impossibly mad or impossibly saintly, and technology is usually very bad for you. In Mad Bad and Dangerous? Christopher Frayling explores the genealogy of the cinematic scientist in films made in western Europe and, especially, in Hollywood, showing how the fictional scientist has often been used to represent the prevailing phobias of the time.