The Celluloid Specimen Moving Image Research into Animal Life
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 an...
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Berkeley, CA :
University of California Press
[2023]
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| Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull: | https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009728339706719 |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: The Celluloid Specimen: Moving Image Research into Animal Life
- Part One. A Science of Sympathy: The Films of Robert Mearns Yerkes
- Introduction
- 1 Stimulating Intelligence: IQ Exams and the Cinema
- 2 “Getting a Feeling for the Animal” Ape Affects Onscreen
- 3 Primate Figures: Social Darwinism, Anthropology, and Ingagi
- Conclusion to Part One. Expressive Labor
- Part Two Model Animals: Neal E. Miller’s Motivation and Reward in Learning
- Introduction
- 4 Rodent Simulations: Stimulus-Response, Laboratory Rats, and a Southern Lynch Mob
- 5 Distributed Suffering. Animal Experiments, Speculative Modeling, and Their Effects
- 6 From Lab to Classroom: Animal Testing and Educational Film
- Conclusion to Part Two. Scientific Folklore in “A Sea of Potential Facts”
- Part Three. Posthuman Control. B. F. Skinner and the Onscreen Pigeon
- Introduction
- 7 Project Pigeon: Rendering the War Animal through Optical Technology
- 8 A Trip through the Senses: The Media Theory of Radical Behaviorism
- 9 Utopian Behavior: The Televisual Figure of a Pigeon That Hailed the Future
- Conclusion to Part Three. The Pigeon as a Figure for Our Times
- Conclusion: Sensing Our Place in History
- Notes
- Selected Bibliography
- Index
