Curtis, Scott.

The shape of spectatorship : art, science, and early cinema in Germany / Scott Curtis. - 371 p. : ill. - Film and culture .

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. HKBU library

YT2025 M08

9780231134026 9780231134033


Motion pictures--History--Germany--20th century.
Motion picture audiences--History--Germany--20th century.
Motion pictures--Aesthetics.
Motion pictures in science--Germany.
Documentary films--History--Germany--20th century.

PN1993 / C978 S 2015