Science Films in America

Drawing on my own experience as a documentary director and videographer over the four decades, I will trace the gyrations in how public undertanding of science---its findings and its process---are served, underserved, and ill-served by American mass media. The peculiar rhetorical demands of streaming and prime time broadcasting are ripe for discussion, as are the original structural underpinnings of American television and the Internet, forces driving what science and technology programs get made and how they are distributed.