Homo Cinematicus: Science, Motion Pictures, and the Making of Modern Germany

by Andreas Killen

In the early decades of the twentieth century, two intertwined changes began to shape the direction of German society. The baptism of the German film industry took place amid post-World War I conditions of political and social breakdown, and the cultural vacuum left by collapsing institutions was partially filled by moving images. At the same time, the emerging human sciences--psychiatry, neurology, sexology, eugenics, industrial psychology, and...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0812249275
• ISBN13: 9780812249279
• Release Date: June 2017
• Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
• Length: 280 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 5.8" x 9.1"