- Description
- xii, 254 pages : illustrations; 24 cm
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- 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".
- Call Number
- MFL 15-3580
- ISBN
- 9780199860685
- 0199860688
- 9780199860708
- 019986070X
- 9780199860692 (canceled/invalid)
- 9780190235987 (canceled/invalid)
- LCCN
- OCLC
- 890792821
- Author
Gaycken, Oliver, author.
- Title
Devices of curiosity : early cinema and popular science / Oliver Gaycken.
- Publisher
New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2015]
- Type of Content
text
- Type of Medium
unmediated
- Type of Carrier
volume
- Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Other Standard Identifier
40024859239
- Research Call Number
MFL 15-3580