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Devices of Curiosity - Early Cinema and Popular Science (Hardcover)
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Devices of Curiosity - Early Cinema and Popular Science (Hardcover)
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Devices of Curiosity excavates a largely unknown genre of early
cinema, the popular-science film. Primarily a work of cinema
history, it also draws on the insights of the history of science.
Beginning around 1903, a variety of producers made films about
scientific topics for general audiences, inspired by a vision of
cinema as an educational medium. This book traces the development
of popular-science films over the first half of the silent era,
from its beginnings in England to its flourishing in France around
1910. Devices of Curiosity also considers how popular-science films
exemplify the circulation of knowledge. These films initially
relied upon previous traditions such as the magic-lantern lecture
for their representational strategies, and they continually had
recourse to established visual iconography, but they also created
novel visual paradigms and led to the creation of ambitious new
film collections. Finally, the book discerns a transit between
nonfictional and fictional modes, seeing affinities between
popular-science films and certain aspects of fiction films,
particularly Louis Feuillade's crime melodramas. This kind of
circulation is important for an understanding of the wider
relevance of early popular-science films, which impacted the
formation of the documentary, educational, and avant-garde cinemas.
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