The shape of spectatorship : art, science, and early cinema in Germany. /
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,...
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| Format: | Licensed eBooks |
| Idioma: | anglès |
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New York, NY :
Columbia University Press
[2015]
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| Col·lecció: | Film and culture.
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| Accés en línia: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.7312/curt13402 |
Taula de continguts:
- 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.