Homo Cinematicus : : Science, Motion Pictures, and the Making of Modern Germany / / Andreas Killen.
In the early decades of the twentieth century, two intertwined changes began to shape the direction of German society. The baptism of the German film industry took place amid post-World War I conditions of political and social breakdown, and the cultural vacuum left by collapsing institutions was pa...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2017] ©2017 |
| Year of Publication: | 2017 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Intellectual History of the Modern Age
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (280 p.) :; 22 illus. |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Abbreviations
- Introduction. Human Science and Cinema in Germany After the Great War
- Chapter 1. Cinema and the Visual Culture of the Human Sciences
- Chapter 2. Film Reform, Mental Hygiene, and the Campaign Against "Trash," 1912-34
- Chapter 3. Hypnosis, Cinema, and Censorship in Germany, 1895-1933
- Chapter 4. What Is an Enlightenment Film? Cinema and Sexual Hygiene in Interwar Germany
- Chapter 5. Scientific Cinema Between Enlightenment and Superstition, 1918-41
- Conclusion. Science, Cinema, and the Malice of Objects
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
- Acknowledgments