LEADER 02872nam 2200373 450 001 9910673916403321 005 20230513111116.0 035 $a(CKB)5580000000518122 035 $a(NjHacI)995580000000518122 035 $a(EXLCZ)995580000000518122 100 $a20230513d2023 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 14$aThe celluloid specimen $emoving image research into animal life /$fBenjamin Schultz-Figueroa 210 1$aOakland, California :$cUniversity of California Press,$d2023. 215 $a1 online resource (viii, 259 pages) $cillustrations 311 $a0-520-34234-8 327 $aIntroduction. The celluloid specimen : moving image research into animal life -- Stimulating intelligence : IQ exams and the cinema -- "Getting a feeling for the animal :" ape affects onscreen -- Primate figures : social darwinism, anthropology, and ingagi -- Rodent simulations : stimulus-response, laboratory rats and a southern lynch mob -- Distributed suffering : animal experiments, speculative modeling, and their effects -- From lab to classroom : animal testing and educational film -- Project pigeon : rendering the war animal through optical technology -- A trip through the senses : the media theory of radical behaviorism -- Utopian behavior : the televisual figure of a pigeon that hailed the future -- Conclusion : sensing our place in history. 330 $a"The Celluloid Specimen examines twentieth-century behaviorist films that captured animal experiments, revealing the central role of cinema in generating psychosocial definitions of species, race, identity, and culture that continue to shape our contemporary political and scientific discourses. BenjamiI?šn Schultz-Figueroa analyzes rarely seen archival films made by Robert Yerkes in the 1930s at the first experimental primate colonies in North America, the rat films made to simulate human society at Yale University in the 1930s and 1940s, and the promotional films made by B.F. Skinner to sell the U.S. military on his design for a pigeon-guided missile during World War II. These laboratory films have long been categorized as passive recordings of scientific research, but when examined in their own right, they become rich historical, political, and aesthetic texts that played a crucial role in the history of science"$c-- Provided by publisher. 606 $aAnimals in motion pictures 606 $aAnimals in motion pictures$y20th century 615 0$aAnimals in motion pictures. 615 0$aAnimals in motion pictures 676 $a791.43662 700 $aSchultz-Figueroa$b Benjamin$01350535 801 0$bNjHacI 801 1$bNjHacl 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910673916403321 996 $aThe Celluloid Specimen$93088759 997 $aUNINA