Lab Coats in Hollywood: science, scientists and cinema. + From IBM to MGM: cinema at the dawn of the Digital Age.

Lab Coats in Hollywood: science, scientists and cinema. David A. Kirby, MIT Press, Cambridge and London (2011)

From IBM to MGM: cinema at the dawn of the Digital Age. Andrew Utterson, BFI, Palgrave Macmillan.

The two Cinema titles have intriguing areas of overlap, containing the tensions and anxieties of not only their areas of focus but also in the approach taken to communicating such issues to a reading audience. The first examines how science in general including computers, is represented within the dream machine and the second, how computers are both represented and used for the manufacture of predominantly, popular entertainment. 

In Leonardo June 2011