The Shape of Spectatorship
Art, Science, and Early Cinema in Germany
1st Edition
Published on 29. October 2015
400 pages
978-0-231-50863-6 (ISBN)
Description
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.
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Language
English
Place of publication
New York, NY
United States
Publishing group
De Gruyter
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Edition type
Digital original
Illustrations
32 schw.-w. Abb., 32 b&w illustrations
File size
3,58 MB
ISBN-13
978-0-231-50863-6 (9780231508636)
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Scott Curtis is associate professor in the Department of Radio/Television/Film at Northwestern University, director of the Communication Program at Northwestern University in Qatar, and president of Domitor, the international society for the study of early cinema.
Content
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. Science's Cinematic Method: Motion Pictures and Scientific Research
2. Between Observation and Spectatorship: Medicine, Movies, and Mass Culture
3. The Taste of a Nation: Educating the Senses and Sensibilities of Film Spectators
4. The Problem with Passivity: Aesthetic Contemplation and Film Spectatorship
Conclusion: Toward a Tactile Historiography
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. Science's Cinematic Method: Motion Pictures and Scientific Research
2. Between Observation and Spectatorship: Medicine, Movies, and Mass Culture
3. The Taste of a Nation: Educating the Senses and Sensibilities of Film Spectators
4. The Problem with Passivity: Aesthetic Contemplation and Film Spectatorship
Conclusion: Toward a Tactile Historiography
Notes
Bibliography
Index
