Celluloid Specimen: Moving Image Research into Animal Life - Couverture souple

Schultz-Figueroa, Benjamin

 
9780520342347: Celluloid Specimen: Moving Image Research into Animal Life
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ISBN 10 : 0520342348 ISBN 13 : 9780520342347
Editeur : University of California Press, 2023

Synopsis

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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.

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À propos de l?auteur

Benjamín Schultz-Figueroa is Assistant Professor of Film Studies at Seattle University.

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Éditeur
University of California Press
Date d'édition
2023
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0520342348
ISBN 13 
9780520342347
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
270
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Personne responsable
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