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24%OFFScott Curtis - The Shape of Spectatorship: Art, Science, and Early Cinema in Germany - 9780231134026 - V9780231134026
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The Shape of Spectatorship: Art, Science, and Early Cinema in Germany

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Description for The Shape of Spectatorship: Art, Science, and Early Cinema in Germany Hardback. Series: Film and Culture Series. Num Pages: 400 pages, 32 b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DFG; APF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 454.
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, ... Read more

Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Number of pages
400
Condition
New
Series
Film and Culture Series
Number of Pages
400
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780231134026
SKU
V9780231134026
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About Scott Curtis
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.

Reviews for The Shape of Spectatorship: Art, Science, and Early Cinema in Germany
I was invigorated and intrigued by the scholarly rigor, historical acumen, and interdisciplinary incentive of Scott Curtis's book. It brings significant inflections to our understanding of the multiple determinations of early German cinema as well as more generally to the complex relations between film and science.
Eric Rentschler, Harvard University, author of The Use and Abuse of Cinema This ... Read more

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