TY  - BOOK
AU  - Curtis,Scott
TI  - The shape of spectatorship: art, science, and early cinema in Germany. 
T2  - Film and Culture Series
SN  - 0231508638
AV  - PN1993.5.G3 
U1  - 791.4 23
PY  - 2015///]
CY  - New York, NY
PB  - Columbia University Press
KW  - Motion pictures
KW  - Germany
KW  - History
KW  - 20th century
KW  - Motion picture audiences
KW  - Aesthetics
KW  - Motion pictures in science
KW  - Documentary films
KW  - Cinéma
KW  - Allemagne
KW  - Histoire
KW  - 20e siècle
KW  - Publics
KW  - Esthétique
KW  - Cinéma en sciences
KW  - PERFORMING ARTS
KW  - Reference
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - EDUCATION / History
KW  - fast
KW  - Film
KW  - gnd
KW  - Deutschland
KW  - Electronic book
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; 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
N2  - 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, he follows specialists across disciplines as they debated and appropriated film for their own ends, negotiating the fascinating, at times fraught relationship between technology, discipline, and expert vision
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