George Basalla
Biographic Data
| ID | 1125641 |
|---|---|
| NAME | George Basalla |
| GIVEN NAMES | George |
| FAMILY NAME | Basalla |
| SIGNATURE | BASALLA G |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Delaware |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 19 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 19 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1975 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Hollywood Science
Reviewed by: Hollywood Science: Movies, Science, and the End of the World George Basalla (bio) Hollywood Science: Movies, Science, and the End of the World. By Sidney Perkowitz. New York: Columbia University Press, 2007. Pp. 272. $24.95. Sidney Perkowitz, a physicist and film buff, is concerned about the way science, technology, and scientists are presented in Hollywood films, notably science-fiction flicks. He reviews over one hundred films and …
Technophobia! Science Fiction Visions of Posthuman Technology (review)
Reviewed by: Technophobia! Science Fiction Visions of Posthuman Technology George Basalla (bio) Technophobia! Science Fiction Visions of Posthuman Technology. By Daniel Dinello . Austin: University of Texas Press, 2006. Pp. ix+329. $24.95. There is a paradox at the heart of the popular response to technology. On one hand, the growth of technology is seen as a sign of human progress. Indeed, societies are routinely ranked according to the level of…
Matters of Gravity
Reviewed by: Matters of Gravity: Special Effects and Superman in the 20th Century George Basalla (bio) Matters of Gravity: Special Effects and Superman in the 20th Century. By Scott Bukatman. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2003. Pp. xvi+279. $74.95/21.95. Matters of Gravity explores the uses and meanings of technology embedded in popular culture: science-fiction films and novels, superhero comic books, Disney theme parks, and Hollywood musi…
Technological Innovation as an Evolutionary Process (review)
On several occasions between 1994 and 1997 John Ziman led a group of nineteen scholars, including historians, sociologists, economists, psychologists, computer scientists, and educators, in studies of technological innovation as an evolutionary process. Now, as a product of those meetings, Ziman—a physicist known for his writings on the social dimensions of science and technology—gives us a well-edited and tightly organized book. The main topic i…
Meaning in Technology
In his introduction to Meaning in Technology, Arnold Pacey writes that he will emphasize "how human purposes, aspirations, and relationships work themselves out in technological contexts over time" (p. 11). He promises to demonstrate how individual engineers, mathematicians, craft workers, women, and men experience technology. In sum, Pacey intends to study the meaning of technology in a radically new way
Instruments and the Imagination
From Faust to Strangelove
They were mad, of course. Or evil. Or godless, amoral, arrogant, impersonal, and inhuman. At best, they were well intentioned but blind to the dangers of forces they barely controlled. They were Faust and Frankenstein, Jekyll and Moreau, Caligari and Strangelove the scientists of film and fiction, cultural archetypes that reflected ancient fears of tampering with the unknown or unleashing the little-understood powers of nature. This book offers a…
From Faust to Strangelove
TECHNOLOGY AND CULTURE Book Reviews 623 FromFaust to Strangelove: Representations ofthe Scientist in Western Litera ture. By Roslynn D. Haynes. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1994. Pp. ix+417; illustrations, notes, bibliography, index. $55.00 (cloth); $19.95 (paper). This work presents the first book-length, historical treatment of the depiction ofscientists and science in Western literature. It covers the period from the Middle Ages…
Technology in World Civilization
Technology in World Civilization
Book Reviews Technology in World Civilization: A Thousand-Year History. By Arnold Pacey. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1990. Pp. xi + 238; illustra tions, notes, bibliography, index. $19.95 (cloth); $10.95 (paper). It has been said that an author choosing to write about a large topic must produce a very short or very large book in order to be successful. Arnold Pacey has chosen a large topic—a thousand years of world technology—and he has neatly …
An Encyclopaedia of the History of Technology. Ian McNeil
The Evolution of Technology
The Evolution of Technology
This book presents an evolutionary theory of technological change based upon recent scholarship in the history of technology and upon relevant material drawn from economic history and anthropology. It challenges the popular notion that technology advances by the efforts of a few heroic individuals who produce a series of revolutionary inventions owing little or nothing to the technological past. Therefore, the book's argument is shaped by analogi…
The evolution of technology
Metropolitan Corridor
Transformed Utilitarian Objects
The American Railroad Passenger Car . John H. White, Jr
Science and Its Critics. John Passmore
Fiftieth Anniversary Celebration of the Society
Meaning in Technology
In his introduction to Meaning in Technology, Arnold Pacey writes that he will emphasize "how human purposes, aspirations, and relationships work themselves out in technological contexts over time" (p. 11). He promises to demonstrate how individual engineers, mathematicians, craft workers, women, and men experience technology. In sum, Pacey intends to study the meaning of technology in a radically new way
Fiftieth Anniversary Celebration of the Society
Fiftieth Anniversary Celebration of the Society
The American Railroad Passenger Car . John H. White, Jr
Science and Its Critics. John Passmore
Transformed Utilitarian Objects
Metropolitan Corridor
The evolution of technology
The Evolution of Technology
This book presents an evolutionary theory of technological change based upon recent scholarship in the history of technology and upon relevant material drawn from economic history and anthropology. It challenges the popular notion that technology advances by the efforts of a few heroic individuals who produce a series of revolutionary inventions owing little or nothing to the technological past. Therefore, the book's argument is shaped by analogi…
The Evolution of Technology
Technology in World Civilization
Technology in World Civilization
Book Reviews Technology in World Civilization: A Thousand-Year History. By Arnold Pacey. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1990. Pp. xi + 238; illustra tions, notes, bibliography, index. $19.95 (cloth); $10.95 (paper). It has been said that an author choosing to write about a large topic must produce a very short or very large book in order to be successful. Arnold Pacey has chosen a large topic—a thousand years of world technology—and he has neatly …
An Encyclopaedia of the History of Technology. Ian McNeil
From Faust to Strangelove
They were mad, of course. Or evil. Or godless, amoral, arrogant, impersonal, and inhuman. At best, they were well intentioned but blind to the dangers of forces they barely controlled. They were Faust and Frankenstein, Jekyll and Moreau, Caligari and Strangelove the scientists of film and fiction, cultural archetypes that reflected ancient fears of tampering with the unknown or unleashing the little-understood powers of nature. This book offers a…
From Faust to Strangelove
TECHNOLOGY AND CULTURE Book Reviews 623 FromFaust to Strangelove: Representations ofthe Scientist in Western Litera ture. By Roslynn D. Haynes. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1994. Pp. ix+417; illustrations, notes, bibliography, index. $55.00 (cloth); $19.95 (paper). This work presents the first book-length, historical treatment of the depiction ofscientists and science in Western literature. It covers the period from the Middle Ages…
Instruments and the Imagination
Meaning in Technology
In his introduction to Meaning in Technology, Arnold Pacey writes that he will emphasize "how human purposes, aspirations, and relationships work themselves out in technological contexts over time" (p. 11). He promises to demonstrate how individual engineers, mathematicians, craft workers, women, and men experience technology. In sum, Pacey intends to study the meaning of technology in a radically new way
Technological Innovation as an Evolutionary Process (review)
On several occasions between 1994 and 1997 John Ziman led a group of nineteen scholars, including historians, sociologists, economists, psychologists, computer scientists, and educators, in studies of technological innovation as an evolutionary process. Now, as a product of those meetings, Ziman—a physicist known for his writings on the social dimensions of science and technology—gives us a well-edited and tightly organized book. The main topic i…
Matters of Gravity
Reviewed by: Matters of Gravity: Special Effects and Superman in the 20th Century George Basalla (bio) Matters of Gravity: Special Effects and Superman in the 20th Century. By Scott Bukatman. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2003. Pp. xvi+279. $74.95/21.95. Matters of Gravity explores the uses and meanings of technology embedded in popular culture: science-fiction films and novels, superhero comic books, Disney theme parks, and Hollywood musi…
Technophobia! Science Fiction Visions of Posthuman Technology (review)
Reviewed by: Technophobia! Science Fiction Visions of Posthuman Technology George Basalla (bio) Technophobia! Science Fiction Visions of Posthuman Technology. By Daniel Dinello . Austin: University of Texas Press, 2006. Pp. ix+329. $24.95. There is a paradox at the heart of the popular response to technology. On one hand, the growth of technology is seen as a sign of human progress. Indeed, societies are routinely ranked according to the level of…
Hollywood Science
Reviewed by: Hollywood Science: Movies, Science, and the End of the World George Basalla (bio) Hollywood Science: Movies, Science, and the End of the World. By Sidney Perkowitz. New York: Columbia University Press, 2007. Pp. 272. $24.95. Sidney Perkowitz, a physicist and film buff, is concerned about the way science, technology, and scientists are presented in Hollywood films, notably science-fiction flicks. He reviews over one hundred films and …
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