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Devices of curiosity : early cinema and popular science / Oliver Gaycken
Resource type: Ressourcentyp: BuchBookLanguage: English Publisher: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, [2015]Copyright date: © 2015Description: XII, 254 Seiten : IllustrationenISBN:- 9780199860708
- 9780199860685
- 791.43/66 23
- 791.4366
- PN1995.9.S265
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Call number: Grundsignatur: 2015 A 3298PPN: PPN: 796963983
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".
| Item type | Home library | Collection | Shelving location | Call number | Status | Barcode | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Freihandbestand ausleihbar | Bibliothek Campus Süd | kunst 7.3 | Lesesaal Geisteswissenschaften (LSG) | 2015 A 3298 | Available | 52063436090 |
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