The ambivalence towards new knowledge: Science in fiction film

Science Images and Popular Images of the Sciences

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 267-282

  Weingart, Peter ^a  

^a BIELEFELD UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

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EID: 84925795811     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.4324/9780203939154     Document Type: Chapter

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