The Celluloid Specimen

Author : Benjamin Schultz-Figueroa
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2023-02-28
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780520974609

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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.

Author : Benjamin Alberto Schultz-Figueroa
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 390 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0438248953

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"The Celluloid Specimen: Moving Image Research of Animal Life" analyzes the films made to document animal experiments in behavioral psychology laboratories during the early- to mid-twentieth century. It argues that this largely ignored cinematic history reveals a dynamic field of behaviorist looking, where the distinctions between nature and culture were inscribed into animal images, generating concepts that broadly shaped the politics of immigration, labor relations, educational practice and gender identity, well beyond the walls of the lab. Its chapters focus on the films made by Robert Yerkes in the 1930s at the first experimental primate colonies in North America; the rat films made to simulate human society at Yale University in the 1940s; and the promotional films made by B.F. Skinner to sell the U.S. Military on his design for a pigeon-guided missile during World War II. "The Celluloid Specimen" was produced through a hybrid methodology, bringing together archival films and documents, primary source materials from film history and science history, as well as the theories of film studies, science and technology studies, critical animal studies, and critical race studies. It concludes that filming animal research was a pivotal practice for generating the psychosocial definitions of species, race, identity, and culture that continue to shape our contemporary political and scientific discourses.

Author : Marina Dahlquist,Doron Galili,Jan Olsson,Valentine Robert
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 371 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2018-11-01
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780253033666

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Corporeality in Early Cinema by Marina Dahlquist,Doron Galili,Jan Olsson,Valentine Robert Pdf

Corporeality in Early Cinema inspires a heightened awareness of the ways in which early film culture, and screen praxes overall are inherently embodied. Contributors argue that on- and offscreen (and in affiliated media and technological constellations), the body consists of flesh and nerves and is not just an abstract spectator or statistical audience entity. Audience responses from arousal to disgust, from identification to detachment, offer us a means to understand what spectators have always taken away from their cinematic experience. Through theoretical approaches and case studies, scholars offer a variety of models for stimulating historical research on corporeality and cinema by exploring the matrix of screened bodies, machine-made scaffolding, and their connections to the physical bodies in front of the screen.

Author : J.R. Haynes
Publisher : Springer
Page : 475 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1981-06-18
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781349053971

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Foraminifera by J.R. Haynes Pdf

Author : Society for Experimental Stress Analysis
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1973
Category : Strains and stresses
ISBN : UOM:39076000990460

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Proceedings of the Society for Experimental Stress Analysis by Society for Experimental Stress Analysis Pdf

Author : United States. Bureau of Reclamation
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 802 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1960
Category : Earthwork
ISBN : UOM:39015027830390

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Earth Manual by United States. Bureau of Reclamation Pdf

Author : Masumi Inaba,Yoshitaka Inaba
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 333 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2013-03-14
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9784431670384

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Androgenetic Alopecia by Masumi Inaba,Yoshitaka Inaba Pdf

The authors have perfected a thick-tissue preparation method for observing hair at various stages of growth, and their findings challenge the currently held three-stage common hair cycle. They have put forward a new hypothesis, the four-stage essential hair cycle, that incorporates their discovery that stem cells are located in the isthmal portion of the sebaceous gland. The essential hair cycle is then used to review the factors contributing to the process of androgenetic alopecia, or premature balding, as it is commonly called. This is followed by an explanation of some general measures for the prevention of androgenetic alopecia and a description of the treatments available.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 820 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1948
Category : Botany
ISBN : IND:30000143780132

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Recueil des travaux botaniques néerlandais by Anonim Pdf

Author : Masumi Inaba,Yoshikata Inaba
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 285 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2013-11-11
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9784431669081

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Human Body Odor by Masumi Inaba,Yoshikata Inaba Pdf

Strong body odor is a condition for which, until now, there have been few treatment methods. The Japanese authors, encouraged by the willingness of Oriental patients to undergo radical treatment, have developed the subcutaneous tissue shaving method, which eliminates the condition in a very short period of time without ugly scarring. The book Human Body Odor not only introduces the completely new subcutaneous tissue shaving method, it also questions conventional theories on the hair cycle itself and throws a new hypothesis about the process of hair generation and regeneration into the scientific arena. This could even lead in the future to a formula for retarding hair loss! Developed over the past twenty years, the authors' new surgical method for the radical treatment of bromidrosis represents a landmark in cosmetic surgery and dermatology!

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1940
Category : Geology
ISBN : MINN:31951000862071O

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Bulletin by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1949
Category : Geology
ISBN : UCR:31210001946480

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Bulletin of the United States Geological Survey by Anonim Pdf

Author : Maxwell Naylor Short
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 366 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1940
Category : Mineralogy, Determinative
ISBN : UOM:39015078690321

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Microscopic Determination of the Ore Minerals by Maxwell Naylor Short Pdf

Author : John George Staack,Maxwell Naylor Short
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1002 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1940
Category : Geodesy
ISBN : UIUC:30112026958477

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Geophysical Abstracts 96-99, January-December 1939 by John George Staack,Maxwell Naylor Short Pdf

Author : John George Staack
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1008 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1940
Category : Bench-marks
ISBN : STANFORD:36105023944569

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Spirit Leveling in Utah, 1897-1938 by John George Staack Pdf

Author : M. N. Short
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 374 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1948
Category : Geology
ISBN : UIUC:30112026958485

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Microscopic Determination of the Ore Minerals by M. N. Short Pdf