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Live From the Moon: Film, Television and the Space Race
Michael Allen
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Description for Live From the Moon: Film, Television and the Space Race
Hardback. At the height of the Cold War between America and Russia, hundreds of spacecrafts travelled into outer space. They sent back awe-inspiring images and sounds from Earth orbit, the Moon, and the planets of Mars, Jupiter, Saturn and Venus. This work is an exploratory story of this cultural and political phenomenon. Num Pages: 239 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: TTD. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 146 x 222 x 25. Weight in Grams: 442.
"We choose to go to the Moon, not because it is easy but because it is hard." President John F. Kennedy's words spoke of an American enterprise that rivalled, and echoed, that of the discovery and settling of his own country a century before. At the height of the Cold War between America and Russia, hundreds of spacecraft, both manned and robotic, travelled into outer space - the New Frontier. They sent back awe-inspiring images and sounds from Earth orbit, the Moon, and the planets of Mars, Jupiter, Saturn and Venus; they also overturned our preconceptions about our own planet. ... Read more
"We choose to go to the Moon, not because it is easy but because it is hard." President John F. Kennedy's words spoke of an American enterprise that rivalled, and echoed, that of the discovery and settling of his own country a century before. At the height of the Cold War between America and Russia, hundreds of spacecraft, both manned and robotic, travelled into outer space - the New Frontier. They sent back awe-inspiring images and sounds from Earth orbit, the Moon, and the planets of Mars, Jupiter, Saturn and Venus; they also overturned our preconceptions about our own planet. ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Number of pages
214
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Condition
New
Number of Pages
240
Place of Publication
, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781845111694
SKU
V9781845111694
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About Michael Allen
Michael Allen is Lecturer in Film and Electronic Media, Birkbeck College, University of London. His books include 'Family Secrets', a study of D.W. Griffith's feature films and 'Contemporary U.S. Cinema'. He is Editor of 'Reading "CSI" (I.B.Tauris 2007). He has been a space enthusiast since he was ten years' old.
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