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The Shape of Spectatorship

Paperback • 2015 • 1. edition

The Shape of Spectatorship

By Scott Curtis

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About the book

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...Show more

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9780231134033

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Columbia University Press

Published year

2015

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