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The Celluloid Specimen
Benjamin Schultz-Figueroa
其他書名
Moving Image Research Into Animal Life
出版Univ of California Press, 2023-02-28
主題Nature / Animals / GeneralPerforming Arts / Film / History & CriticismScience / HistoryScience / Laboratory TechniquesSocial Science / Sociology / GeneralSocial Science / Media Studies
ISBN05203423489780520342347
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=ku2hEAAAQBAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋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. "Essential reading for anyone in behavioral science and media studies." -- LISA CARTWRIGHT, University of California, San Diego "Remarkable and urgently needed. Benjamín Schultz-Figueroa disinters an extraordinary lost archive that sheds new light on race, eugenics, species, the science of sex, and biopolitics. A resonant-- and stunningly clear--intervention." -- DONOVAN SCHAEFER, author of Wild Experiment: Feeling Science and Secularism after Darwin "A fertile, sprawling, kaleidoscopic work. No book outlines the multiple functions of the scientific moving image as thoroughly. A brilliant and essential addition to animal studies, cinema and media studies, and the history of science." -- SCOTT CURTIS, author of The Shape of Spectatorship: Art, Science, and Early Cinema in Germany "Seriously speculative, meticulously researched, and boldly interdisciplinary, The Celluloid Specimen cross-pollinates nontheatrical film studies and critical animal studies with stunning acumen and gripping analysis." -- YIMAN WANG, University of California, Santa Cruz.