UID:
almafu_9958351989702883
Format:
1 online resource(416 p.) :
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illustrations.
Edition:
Electronic reproduction. New York, NY : Columbia University Press, 2015. Mode of access: World Wide Web.
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ISBN:
9780231508636
Series Statement:
Film and Culture Series
Content:
In this exceptionally wide-ranging study, Scott Curtis draws our eye to the role of scientific, medical, educational, and aesthetic observation in shaping modern conceptions of spectatorship. Focusing on the nontheatrical use of motion picture technology in Germany between the 1890s and World War I, he follows specialists across disciplines as they debated and appropriated film for their own ends, negotiating the fascinating, at times fraught relationship between technology, discipline, and expert vision. As researchers, teachers, and intellectuals adapted film and its technology to their viewing practices, often emphasizing the formal connection between material and discipline, they produced new ideas of mass spectatorship that continue to affect the way we make and experience film. By staging a collision between the moving image and scientific or medical observation, visual instruction, and aesthetic contemplation, Curtis showcases both the full extent of early cinema's revolutionary impact on society and culture and the challenges the new medium placed on ways of seeing and learning.
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Frontmatter --
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CONTENTS --
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List of Illustrations --
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Acknowledgments --
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Introduction --
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1. Science’s cinematic method: Motion pictures and scientific research --
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2. Between observation and spectatorship: Medicine, movies, and mass culture --
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3. The taste of a nation: Educating the senses and sensibilities of film spectators --
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4. The problem with passivity: Aesthetic contemplation and film spectatorship --
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Conclusion: Toward a tactile historiography --
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Notes --
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Bibliography --
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Index --
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Backmatter
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In English.
Language:
English
Keywords:
Electronic books.
URL:
https://www.degruyter.com/doi/book/10.7312/curt13402
URL:
URL des Erstveröffentlichers
