Devices of curiosity early cinema and popular science /
Gaycken, Oliver
Devices of curiosity early cinema and popular science / [Texte imprimé] : Oliver Gaycken - Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, cop. 2015 - 1 vol. (XII-254 p.) : ill., couv. ill. ; 24 cm
Prologue: Where did these scorpions come from? -- "Revealing nature's closest secrets": F. Martin Duncan's popular-science films at the Charles Urban Trading Company -- Juggling flies and gravid plants: F. Percy Smith's early popular-science films -- "A drama unites them in a fight to the death": the flourishing of popular-science films in France, 1909-1914 -- A modern cabinet of curiosities: George Kleine's collection of popular-science films -- Popular science and crime melodrama: Louis Feuillade and the serial -- Conclusion: Round and round: from the somersaulting monkey to "bug workout"
978-0-19-986068-5
Science in motion pictures Science films / History and criticism Motion pictures in science
791.4366
Devices of curiosity early cinema and popular science / [Texte imprimé] : Oliver Gaycken - Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, cop. 2015 - 1 vol. (XII-254 p.) : ill., couv. ill. ; 24 cm
Prologue: Where did these scorpions come from? -- "Revealing nature's closest secrets": F. Martin Duncan's popular-science films at the Charles Urban Trading Company -- Juggling flies and gravid plants: F. Percy Smith's early popular-science films -- "A drama unites them in a fight to the death": the flourishing of popular-science films in France, 1909-1914 -- A modern cabinet of curiosities: George Kleine's collection of popular-science films -- Popular science and crime melodrama: Louis Feuillade and the serial -- Conclusion: Round and round: from the somersaulting monkey to "bug workout"
978-0-19-986068-5
Science in motion pictures Science films / History and criticism Motion pictures in science
791.4366