Homo Cinematicus: Science, Motion Pictures, and the Making of Modern Germany

Andreas Killen

Published by University of Pennsylvania Press 2017

Homo Cinematicus

Science, Motion Pictures, and the Making of Modern Germany

Andreas Killen

In the series Intellectual History of the Modern Age

https://doi.org/10.9783/9780812294118

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About this book

Situated at the intersection of film studies, the history of science and medicine, and the history of modern Germany, Homo Cinematicus: Science, Motion Pictures, and the Making of Modern Germany connects the emergence of cinema as a social institution to an inquiry into the history of knowledge production in the human sciences.

Author / Editor information

Andreas Killen is Professor of History at the City College of New York and the CUNY Graduate Center.

Reviews

"Homo Cinematicus offers brilliant insights into the emergence of a specific form of German modernity through the lens of nonfiction film. Drawing on archival sources, the book shows how cinema helped shape debates about public health and social policies in the first half of the twentieth century. An indispensable book for anyone interested in the ways in which cinema fostered the pursuit of knowledge in the human sciences."—Anton Kaes, University of California, Berkeley

"Among Homo Cinematicus's many strengths is its outstanding ability to situate film in larger discursive contexts, iconographies, and social agendas, as well as its comprehensive discussion of these relationships. To reexamine this era of German cinema and the discourse around it on their own terms, and not as a prelude to the Nazi regime, is an absolutely essential task, and Killen does so brilliantly. No other book on this topic matches its scope and ambition."—Scott Curtis, Northwestern University

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	v
Abbreviations Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	vii
Introduction. Human Science and Cinema in Germany After the Great War Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
Chapter 1. Cinema and the Visual Culture of the Human Sciences Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	23
Chapter 2. Film Reform, Mental Hygiene, and the Campaign Against “Trash,” 1912–34 Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	65
Chapter 3. Hypnosis, Cinema, and Censorship in Germany, 1895–1933 Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	103
Chapter 4. What Is an Enlightenment Film? Cinema and Sexual Hygiene in Interwar Germany Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	137
Chapter 5. Scientific Cinema Between Enlightenment and Superstition, 1918–41 Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	164
Conclusion. Science, Cinema, and the Malice of Objects Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	195
Notes Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	205
Bibliography Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	247
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	261
Acknowledgments Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	267

Language: English
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Audience: College/higher education;
Pages
- Main content: 280
Illustrations
- Other: 22 illus.
Keywords: Film Studies; Media Studies; History; European History; World History

eBook

Published: May 12, 2017
ISBN: 9780812294118