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

Erscheinungsjahr 2015
ISBN: 978-0-231-13402-6
Verlag: Columbia University Press

Buch, Englisch, 400 Seiten, Format (B × H): 151 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 636 g

Reihe: Film and Culture Series

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Curtis, Scott

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Filmwissenschaft, Fernsehen, Radio Filmtheorie, Filmanalyse
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Ästhetik
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Deutsche Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Kultur- und Ideengeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Wissenschafts- und Universitätsgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Filmwissenschaft, Fernsehen, Radio Filmgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Filmwissenschaft, Fernsehen, Radio Filmproduktion, Filmtechnik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of IllustrationsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. Science's Cinematic Method: Motion Pictures and Scientific Research2. Between Observation and Spectatorship: Medicine, Movies, and Mass Culture3. The Taste of a Nation: Educating the Senses and Sensibilities of Film Spectators4. The Problem with Passivity: Aesthetic Contemplation and Film SpectatorshipConclusion: Toward a Tactile HistoriographyNotes BibliographyIndex

Über Autor(innen)

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.