The Celluloid Specimen

Moving Image Research into Animal Life

von Benjamin Schultz-Figueroa

272 Seiten, Taschenbuch

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press's Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more. 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.

• Reihe: University of California Press
• ISBN: 9780520342347
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 28.02.2023
• Größe: 229 x 152 mm
• Verlag: UCAL POD