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The Celluloid Specimen: Moving Image Research Into Animal Life

The Celluloid Specimen: Moving Image Research Into Animal Life

Schultz-Figueroa, Benjamin

Paperback

Film StudiesGeneral AnimalsGeneral Sociology

ISBN10: 0520342348
ISBN13: 9780520342347
Publisher: Univ Of California Pr
Published: Feb 28 2023
Pages: 270
Weight: 0.95
Height: 0.80 Width: 6.00 Depth: 8.80
Language: English

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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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