Ebook: The Shape of Spectatorship: Art, Science, and Early Cinema in Germany

Focusing on the nontheatrical use of motion picture technology in Germany between the 1890s and World War I, Scott Curtis follows researchers, teachers, and intellectuals as they negotiated the fraught relationship between technology, discipline, and expert vision. As these specialists struggled to come to terms with motion pictures, they advanced new ideas of mass spectatorship that continue to affect the way we make and experience film.

Draws our eye to the role of scientific, medical, educational, and aesthetic observation in shaping modern conceptions of spectatorship