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The shape of spectatorship : art, science, and early cinema in Germany / Scott Curtis.
LIBRA PN1993.5.G3 C88 2015
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Curtis, Scott, author.
- Series:
- Film and culture
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Motion pictures--Germany--History--20th century.
- Motion pictures.
- Documentary films.
- History.
- Motion pictures in science.
- Motion picture audiences.
- Germany.
- Motion picture audiences--Germany--History--20th century.
- Motion pictures--Aesthetics.
- Motion pictures in science--Germany.
- Documentary films--Germany--History--20th century.
- Genre:
- History.
- Physical Description:
- xv, 371 pages ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Columbia University Press, [2015]
- Summary:
- Scott Curtis draws our eye to the role of scientific, medical, educational, and aesthetic observation in shaping modern spectatorship. Focusing on the nontheatrical use of motion picture technology in Germany between the 1890s and World War I, he follows researchers, teachers, and intellectuals as they negotiated the fascinating, at times fraught relationship between technology, discipline, and expert vision. As these specialists struggled to come to terms with motion pictures, they advanced new ideas of mass spectatorship that continue to affect the way we make and experience film. Staging a brilliant collision between the moving image and scientific or medical observation, visual instruction, and aesthetic contemplation, The Shape of Spectatorship showcases early cinema's revolutionary impact on society and culture and the challenges the new medium placed on ways of seeing and learning. Book jacket.
- Contents:
- Introduction
- Science's cinematic method: motion pictures and scientific research
- Between observation and spectatorship: medicine, movies, and mass culture
- The taste of a nation: educating the senses and sensibilities of film spectators
- The problem with passivity: aesthetic contemplation and film spectatorship
- Conclusion: toward a tactile historiography.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780231134026
- 0231134029
- 9780231134033
- 0231134037
- OCLC:
- 905970121
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