03585nam 22004215 450 99651776350331620230328044521.0978052097460910.1525/9780520974609(CKB)26385025500041(DE-B1597)642438(DE-B1597)9780520974609(EXLCZ)992638502550004120230328h20232023 fg engur|||||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierThe Celluloid Specimen Moving Image Research into Animal Life /Benjamin Schultz-FigueroaBerkeley, CA : University of California Press, [2023]©20231 online resource (270 p.)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 -- IndexA 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.Animals in motion pictures20th centuryLaboratory animalsSOCIAL SCIENCE / Media StudiesbisacshAnimals in motion picturesLaboratory animals.SOCIAL SCIENCE / Media Studies.791.43/662Schultz-Figueroa Benjamin, authttp://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut1350535DE-B1597DE-B1597996517763503316The Celluloid Specimen3088759UNISA