Homo Cinematicus: Science, Motion Pictures, and the Making of Modern Germany
ISBN: 9780812294118
Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / University of Pennsylvania Press
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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.


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