The New Formula For Cool : : Science, Technology, and the Popular in the American Imagination /

The New Formula For Cool : : Science, Technology, and the Popular in the American Imagination / / Judith Kohlenberger.

»Our society has undergone a paradigm shift. In the information age, you and I are the alpha males,« Dr Leonard Hofstadter, experimental physicist and protagonist of the hit sitcom »The Big Bang Theory«, assures himself and his fellow scientists. The success of this and similar formats in American p...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Plus PP Package 2015 Part 2
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Kohlenberger, Judith,
Place / Publishing House:Bielefeld : : transcript Verlag, , [2015]
©2015
Year of Publication:2015
Edition:1. Aufl.
Language:English
Series:American Culture Studies ; 12
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Physical Description:1 online resource (346 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Table of Contents
  • Acknowledgements
  • Introduction
  • The Conquest of Cool
  • The American Information Society and the Crisis of Scientific Legitimation
  • Nerd Alert
  • Cool Forensics and the Spectacle of Technoscience in CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, CSI: Miami, and CSI: NY
  • Geek Cool and the Comedy of Science in The Big Bang Theory
  • Only The Cool Survive
  • From Nerds to iCons
  • Beyond the Formula
  • References
  • Index

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