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Schultz-Figueroa Benjamin |
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The Celluloid Specimen : Moving Image Research into Animal Life / / Benjamin Schultz-Figueroa |
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Berkeley, CA : , : University of California Press, , [2023] |
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©2023 |
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1 online resource (270 p.) |
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Animals in motion pictures - 20th century |
Laboratory animals |
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Media Studies |
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: The Celluloid Specimen: Moving Image Research into Animal Life -- Part One. A Science of Sympathy: The Films of Robert Mearns Yerkes -- Introduction -- 1 Stimulating Intelligence: IQ Exams and the Cinema -- 2 “Getting a Feeling for the Animal” Ape Affects Onscreen -- 3 Primate Figures: Social Darwinism, Anthropology, and Ingagi -- Conclusion to Part One. Expressive Labor -- Part Two Model Animals: Neal E. Miller’s Motivation and Reward in Learning -- Introduction -- 4 Rodent Simulations: Stimulus-Response, Laboratory Rats, and a Southern Lynch Mob -- 5 Distributed Suffering. Animal Experiments, Speculative Modeling, and Their Effects -- 6 From Lab to Classroom: Animal Testing and Educational Film -- Conclusion to Part Two. Scientific Folklore in “A Sea of Potential Facts” -- Part Three. Posthuman Control. B. F. Skinner and the Onscreen Pigeon -- Introduction -- 7 Project Pigeon: Rendering the War Animal through Optical Technology -- 8 A Trip through the Senses: The Media Theory of Radical Behaviorism -- 9 Utopian Behavior: The Televisual Figure of a Pigeon That Hailed the Future -- Conclusion to Part Three. The Pigeon as a Figure for Our Times -- Conclusion: Sensing Our Place in History -- Notes -- Selected Bibliography -- Index |
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A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press’s Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more. In The Celluloid Specimen, Benjamín Schultz-Figueroa examines rarely seen behaviorist films of animal experiments from the 1930s and 1940s. These laboratory recordings—including Robert Yerkes's work with North American primate colonies, Yale University's rat-based simulations of human society, and B. F. Skinner's promotions for pigeon-guided missiles—have long been considered passive records of scientific research. In Schultz-Figueroa's incisive analysis, however, they are revealed to be rich historical, political, and aesthetic texts that played a crucial role in American scientific and cultural history—and remain foundational to contemporary conceptions of species, race, identity, and society. |
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