Title The shape of spectatorship : art, science, and early cinema in Germany. / Scott Curtis.

Publication Info.	New York, NY : Columbia University Press, 2015.
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Description	1 online resource (xv, 371 pages) : illustrations.
Series	Film and Culture Series
	Film and culture.
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Note	Print version record.
Contents	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.
Summary	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.
Subject	Motion pictures -- Germany -- History -- 20th century.
	Motion picture audiences -- Germany -- History -- 20th century.
	Motion pictures -- Aesthetics.
	Motion pictures in science -- Germany.
	Documentary films -- Germany -- History -- 20th century.
	Documentary films. (OCoLC)fst00896079
	Motion picture audiences. (OCoLC)fst01027116
	Motion pictures. (OCoLC)fst01027285
	Motion pictures -- Aesthetics. (OCoLC)fst01027288
	Motion pictures in science. (OCoLC)fst01027471
	Germany. (OCoLC)fst01210272
	PERFORMING ARTS / Reference.
Chronological Term	1900-1999
Genre/Form	History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
Other Form:	Print version: Curtis, Scott. Shape of spectatorship. New York : Columbia University Press, [2015] 9780231134026 (DLC) 2015010546 (OCoLC)905970121
ISBN	0231508638 (electronic bk.)
	9780231508636 (electronic bk.)

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