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The Celluloid Specimen: Moving Image Research into Animal Life
The Celluloid Specimen: Moving Image Research into Animal Life
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2023
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Schultz-Figueroa, Benjamin
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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.
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University of California Press - CC-BY-NC - https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/jj.1791902 - 270 pages
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Communication Studies,
Film Studies,
Zoology,
History of Science & Technology,
General Science