The celluloid specimen : : moving image research into animal life / / Benjamin Schultz-Figueroa.
"The Celluloid Specimen examines twentieth-century behaviorist films that captured animal experiments, revealing the central role of cinema in generating psychosocial definitions of species, race, identity, and culture that continue to shape our contemporary political and scientific discourses....
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| Place / Publishing House: | Oakland, California : : University of California Press,, 2023. |
| Year of Publication: | 2023 |
| Language: | English |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (viii, 259 pages) :; illustrations |
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction. The celluloid specimen : moving image research into animal life
- Stimulating intelligence : IQ exams and the cinema
- "Getting a feeling for the animal :" ape affects onscreen
- Primate figures : social darwinism, anthropology, and ingagi
- Rodent simulations : stimulus-response, laboratory rats and a southern lynch mob
- Distributed suffering : animal experiments, speculative modeling, and their effects
- From lab to classroom : animal testing and educational film
- Project pigeon : rendering the war animal through optical technology
- A trip through the senses : the media theory of radical behaviorism
- Utopian behavior : the televisual figure of a pigeon that hailed the future
- Conclusion : sensing our place in history.