03343nam 2200661 450 991079758530332120230124193303.00-231-50863-810.7312/curt13402(CKB)3710000000464020(EBL)2147430(StDuBDS)EDZ0001285057(MiAaPQ)EBC2147430(DE-B1597)458296(OCoLC)918998835(OCoLC)979576997(DE-B1597)9780231508636(Au-PeEL)EBL2147430(CaONFJC)MIL822472(EXLCZ)99371000000046402020180716d2015 uy 0engur|n|---|||||rdacontentrdacontentrdamediardacarrierThe shape of spectatorship art, science, and early cinema in Germany /Scott CurtisNew York :Columbia University Press,[2015]©20151 online resource (394 p.)Film and cultureDescription based upon print version of record.0-231-13402-9 0-231-13403-7 Includes bibliographical references (pages 313-354) 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.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.Film and culture.Motion picturesGermanyHistory20th centuryMotion picture audiencesGermanyHistory20th centuryMotion picturesAestheticsMotion pictures in scienceGermanyDocumentary filmsGermanyHistory20th centuryMotion picturesHistoryMotion picture audiencesHistoryMotion picturesAesthetics.Motion pictures in scienceDocumentary filmsHistory791.430943Curtis Scott1580212MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910797585303321The shape of spectatorship3860966UNINA