TY  - BOOK
AU  - Curtis,Scott
TI  - The Shape of Spectatorship: Art, Science, and Early Cinema in Germany 
T2  - Film and Culture Series
SN  - 9780231134026
AV  - PN1993.5.G3 C88 2015
U1  - 791.430943 23
PY  - 2015///]
CY  - New York, NY
PB  - Columbia University Press
KW  - Documentary films
KW  - Germany
KW  - History
KW  - 20th century
KW  - Motion picture audiences
KW  - Motion pictures in science
KW  - Motion pictures
KW  - Aesthetics
KW  - PERFORMING ARTS / Film & Video / General
KW  - bisacsh
N1  - Frontmatter --; CONTENTS --; 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 --; Backmatter; restricted access
N2  - 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
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780231508636
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ER  -