Devices of Curiosity - Early Cinema and Popular Science

Informationen zum Autor Oliver Gaycken is Assistant Professor English at the University of Maryland. Klappentext Devices of Curiosity excavates a largely unknown genre of early cinema, the popular-science film. Primarily a work of cinema history, it also draws on the insights of the history of science. Zusammenfassung Devices of Curiosity excavates a largely unknown genre of early cinema, the popular-science film. Primarily a work of cinema history, it also draws on the insights of the history of science. Inhaltsverzeichnis Prologue: Where Did These Scorpions Come from?; Chapter One: Revealing Nature's Closest Secrets:F. Martin Duncan's Popular-Science Films at the Charles Urban Trading Company; Chapter Two: Juggling Flies and Gravid Plants: F. Percy Smith's Early Popular-Science Films; Chapter Three: A Drama Unites Them in a Fight to the Death: The Flourishing of Popular-Science Films in France, 1909-1914; Chapter Four: A Modern Cabinet of Curiosities: George Kleine's Collection of Popular-Science Films; Chapter Five: Popular Science and Crime Melodrama: Louis Feuillade and the Serial; Conclusion: Round and Round: From the Somersaulting Monkey to Bug Workout; Works Cited; Index

Product details

• Authors: Oliver Gaycken, Oliver (Assistant Professor of English Gaycken, Gaycken Oliver
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 21.05.2015
• EAN: 9780199860708
• ISBN: 978-0-19-986070-8
• No. of pages: 272
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Theatre, ballet; Social sciences, law, business > Media, communication > Media science; Media Studies, popular science, SCIENCE / History, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Media Studies, History of Science, PERFORMING ARTS / Film / History & Criticism, Film Theory & Criticism, Film history, theory or criticism