The Shape of Spectatorship: Art, Science, and Early Cinema in Germany

by Scott Curtis and Scott Curtis

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0231134037
• ISBN13: 9780231134033
• Release Date: September 2015
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Length: 400 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.9" x 8.9"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher