INDEX
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ABC der Anschauung (Pestalozzi), 173
abstraction: of movement, 34, 37–38, 49–63, 74–75; of spectators, 11–12
active and passive viewers, 200, 232. See also expert/lay distinctions
Adorno, Theodor, 199
adult education and motion pictures, 184–90
aesthetic contemplation, 8, 10, 17, 211, 251, 197–202; agency or free will and, 201, 213, 214; alertness (Geistesgegenwart) and, 213; Benjamin and, 235, 240–41; distraction and, 201, 233–35; as expert vision or observation, 10, 135, 195; gender and, 231–32; as ground for aesthetic experience, 219, 230; indeterminacy and, 208; Kracauer and, 234; Lukács and, 235–40; mass reception and, 201, 216, 217; moral significance of, 241; motion pictures and, 17, 189, 195–96, 230–31; movement and, 226, 230–31; as observational training, 170–72; passivity and, 201; political implications of, 232; Schiller and, 190; Schopenhauer and, 207, 214. See also aesthetic experience
aesthetic education, 143–47; film reform and, 172; as German tradition, 143; moral renewal and, 176, 169–70; museums and, 170; nationalism and, 168–71; observational training and, 163, 168–71; Schiller and, 167–68, 171; suggestibility and, 167
aesthetic experience, 5, 7, 8, 198; aesthetic education and, 143; agency within, 201, 202–14; descriptions of, 196–201; detachment and, 196–98, 202, 209, 220, 241; embodied vision and, 214–30; as emotional projection, 217, 220–21; identity and, 214–16; moral significance of, 197–201, 207; movement and, 224–30; as renewal of perception, 213; repose and, 209; Schiller and, 205–07; Schopenhauer and, 207, 214; synesthesia and, 221–22; as system of dichotomies, 196–201; taste and, 191; temporality and, 204–7. See also aesthetic contemplation
aesthetics, 1, 4–5; Einfühlung as solution to problems in, 215–16; formalist and scientific approaches to, 215; reception and form in, 195; “traditional,” 17, 190, 195, 207, 214, 216–17, 237
agency, 5, 17, 197–99, 201, 202–14. See also free will; volition; will
Die Aktion, 239
alertness or presence of mind (Geistesgegenwart), 212–14, 240
all-at-onceness, 120. See also observation: gaze and glance
alignment of image, object, and technology, 38, 43–62
Allgemeines Krankenhaus, 103
The Alps (film), 243
Altenloh, Emilie, 165, 200
alternative public sphere, early film exhibition as, 184
American College of Surgeons, 109
American Hospital Association, 109
analysis and synthesis, 11, 25, 36–37, 42, 112, 117–18, 124; medical observation and, 120–25; motion pictures and, 32, 36; scientific cinematography’s relationship to, 87, 117–18; spectatorship and, 165
analysis (close reading), 4–5, 12, 247–49
analysis of motion, 20, 38, 40, 44, 77, 115–16; Bergson’s critique of, 32–33, 87; frame-by-frame, 60, 98, 117, 125
Andreas-Salomé, Lou, 209–10
Andrew, Dudley, 201
Andriopolous, Stefan, 135
anesthesia, 138
animal locomotion, 41, 45
Anschaulichkeit (vividness), 107–8, 179
Anschauung (sense impression), 172–76
Anschauungsunterricht (visual means of instruction), 9, 10, 16, 145–46, 172–84; as apperception, 174–75; correlation and, 174–75; detail and, 173–74; elementary and adult education and, 176–77; Herbartian principles of, 182–83; Lichtwark and, 163; motion pictures and, 146, 182–83; natural sciences and, 175; as object lesson, 173–75; as observational training, 10, 145, 162, 173–75; Pestalozzi and, 172, 174–75; relationship to images and words, 175–76; self-cultivation (Bildung) and, 145; social acceleration and, 173–74. See also object lesson
Anschütz, Ottomar, 45, 265n73
apperception, 173–74, 181–82, 226–27
Arbeitsschule (works schools), 149
Arbeitswissenschaft (the science of work), 42
architecture, 190, 224–27, 241
archives, of images, 97, 103–5, 114–16
Aristotelian science, 35
Arnheim, Rudolf, 244
art education movement (Kunsterziehungsbewegung), 16, 149, 169–71, 176
Ashwin, Clive, 173, 176
atomic-kinetic model of heat, 20, 65, 67
atomic-kinetic theory of matter, 64–65
attention (Aufmerksamkeit), 126, 132–33, 139–40, 174, 178, 189, 198–99, 201, 220
aura, 190
automatic writing, 45
autopsies, 119
Autorenfilm (author’s film), 194
 
Bachelard, Gaston, 23
Balàzs, Béla, 244, 250, 279n70
bearers of culture (Kulturträger), 127. See also physicians
beautiful, theory of the, 214, 304n10
Bellevue Hospital, 104–5
Bellour, Raymond, 136
Bénard, Henri, 76
Benjamin, Walter, 193, 202, 218, 236–37, 244, 250; alertness and, 213; aura and, 190; Bergson and, 36; contemplation and, 201, 208, 235, 240–41; distraction and, 201, 233, 235; Duhamel and, 212; expert/lay distinctions and, 12; mode of perception and, 13; optical unconscious and, 86; traditional aesthetics and, 195, 214
Bergson, Henri, 21, 25, 38, 39, 43, 60, 73, 116, 117, 235; analysis and, 87–88; Benjamin and, 36; cinematographical thinking and, 15, 22, 32–37; critique of science and, 32–37, 62–64; eidos and, 59; German counterparts to, 36–37; movement and, 33–34; synthesis and, 36; time and, 74–76; United States and, 22, 32, 36
Bernheim, Hippolyte, 135
Bildbetrachtung (image viewing), 10, 171, 189
Bild und Film (trade journal), 152, 160, 184
Bild und Wort (Image and Word society) (film exhibitions), 184
Bildung (self-cultivation), 145; visual training and, 141
Bildungsbürgertum (educated middle-class), 126, 134
Billings, Susan, 81
Billroth, Theodor, 119
Binet, Alfred, 164
biology, 14, 22, 32, 97; cell, 6, 21, 25, 37, 76–88, 250
Der Blaue Engel (The Blue Angel) (film) 142
Bloch, Ernst, 194, 222–24
The Blue Angel (film), 142
Borbacher Knabenmord (child murder of Borbach), 287n151
Botryllus (sea squirts), 76
Bourdieu, Pierre, 143
Braun, Ludwig, 98–100, 111–21, 124, 248, 250
Braune, Wilhelm, 19–20, 24–26, 38, 41–44, 62–63, 88, 91, 98, 116. See also The Human Gait
Braus, Hermann, 20, 24, 25, 29, 78; nerve fibers and, 77, 80, 82–86, 88
Brecht, Bertolt, 240, 241
British Medical Association, 106
Brod, Max, 194, 212
Brown, Robert, 65
Brownian motion, 20, 24–25, 27, 62–76, 71, 72, 77, 81, 87, 266n97; Einstein’s theory of, 64–69, 266n94, 266n98; importance of displacement to Einstein’s theory, 68–69
Brunner, Karl, 152–53, 157–58, 292n34
Brush, Stephen, 69
Bull, Lucien, 27, 76
Burrows, Montrose, 83
 
The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (film), 244
capitalism, 143, 144, 147, 161
cardiac dynamics and mechanics, 98, 99, 100
Carlet, H. M., 45
Carrel, Alexis, 83
Cartwright, Lisa, 104, 113
Carvallo, Joachim-Léon, 27, 100, 107
cell biology, 6, 21, 25, 37, 76–88, 250
censorship, 153, 158, 186
Century of the Child (Key), 163
Charcot, Jean-Martin, 115, 137, 164
Charité Hospital, 105
Charles Urban Trading Company, 156
Chase, Walter, 103
Chevroton, Lucienne, 27, 76
child psychology, 127, 146, 162–64. See also children and crowds: analogies between; crowd psychology
children and crowds: analogies between, 143, 162; aesthetic sensibilities of, 143; as models for descriptions of film spectatorship, 162, See also crowd psychology
chronophotography, 15, 21, 23, 25, 28, 60–61, 62, 116; Brownian motion and, 20, 69, 73; ergonomics and, 41; for The Human Gait, 44–62, 52; human locomotion and, 19–20; two-sided, 46
cinema: theater compared to, 236–39
Cinema and Art (Kino und Kunst) (Häfker), 184
“Cinema and Schoolchildren” (Kleibömer), 202
Cinema Reform Association, 155, 162
The Cinematic Lesson Plan (Die kinematographische Unterrichtsstunde) (Lemke), 182, 183
cinematographical thinking, 15, 15, 22, 32–37. See also Bergson, Henri
cinematography, 21–22; adaptation of for biology and physics, 76–77; as aid to correlation, 116, 123; analysis and synthesis and, 117; Bergson’s analogy of, 32–37; Braun and, 111–14; Braus and, 20, 84–87; Brownian motion and, 66, 69–70; as confirmation of biological theory, 85; high-speed, 27, 30, 76; medical, 92–93, 98 114, 243; microcinematography, 27, 76, 92–93, 98; science and, 32–37; slow-motion, 27, 86, 123; as substitute for object of study, 84; time-lapse, 23, 30, 84–85, 86, 98, 123, 250; as optical unconscious, 86; as virtual experiment, 84, 100; as virtual witness, 84, 100; X-rays and, 27, 100–102, 101. See also chronophotography; The Human Gait; medical filmmaking; research film
class: educated middle-class, 126, 134; ideals, 245; identity, 13, 122; warfare, 292n34; working, 232
class-based distinctions, 12, 95, 245
classical physics, 63, 65, 68
Clausius, Rudolf, 40
clinical gaze, 115, 118–19, 122. See also observation: gaze and glance
clothing reform, 149–50
Cole, Lewis Gregory, 100
Collège de France, 27, 76
Comandon, Jean, 28, 29, 76, 102, 104
communal sense (sensus communis), 191
continuity and discontinuity, 5, 25, 32–34, 36, 61, 64, 75, 82, 83, 86–87, 117, 178
correlation, 8, 111, 124, 139, 163, 173, 175; definition of, 114; medical observation and, 115–17; film as aid to, 122, 123, 246
country boarding schools (Landerziehungsheime), 149
Cranz, Carl, 28
Crary, Jonathan, 132–33, 215
Creative Evolution (Bergson), 22, 25, 32, 37
crime, hypnotism and, 135–36
critical method (kritischer Methode), 130. See also observation
Critique of Judgment (Kant), 197
Critiques (Kant), 172, 197
Cros, Charles, 19
crowd psychology, 137, 146; theories of, 164–65; suggestibility and, 165–66; will or volition and, 166. See also children and crowds: analogies between
“The Cult of Distraction” (Kracauer), 233
cultural capital, 122
cultural pessimism, 128
cultural series, 13
The Culture of the Female Body as a Foundation for Women’s Clothing (Schultze-Naumberg), 149–50
curricular integration, 181
 
Dadaists, 232
Darwin, Charles, 128, 137, 164, 296n80
Daston, Lorraine, 120
de Broglie, Louis, 74
Degeneration (Nordau), 128
degeneration (concept), 40 128, 131–32
de Lagarde, Paul, 148, 168
Deleuze, Gilles, 37, 75–76
Descartes, René, 63, 119, 210–11
The Descent of Man (Darwin), 164
Dessoir, Max, 307n51,308n55
detachment: aesthetic,191, 196–98, 202, 209, 220, 241; expert, 11, 12, 245. See also observation: aesthetic experience
detail: as fidelity to nature, 5, 93, 107–08, 111–13, 179; as ground for authenticity, 173–75, 179; as ground for observational practice, 119–20, 139, 204, 246; scientific management of, 25, 46, 52, 60, 125; as symptom of modernity, 174, 189, 211
Dewey, John, 171
Diderot, Denis, 232
Didi-Huberman, Georges, 115
Diederichs, Helmut, 194
differential reproduction, 250, 257n9
Dilthey, Wilhelm, 36
direct perception (immediate or sensual), 7, 108, 110, 122, 145, 172, 173, 221, 250, 279n70
disciplinary agendas, 2–3, 4, 88, 89, 245–46, 249; technology and, 3–4, 14–15, 249
disciplinary logic, 4–6, 9–10, 14–15, 23–24, 109, 248–49; film form and, 5–6, 23–24, 111–25. See also medical logic; patterns of use: film form and
discontinuity. See continuity and discontinuity
disease, 91, 101, 105, 119, 127–28; cinematography and, 140; neurological, 103; series photography and, 113–15
disinterest. See detachment; aesthetic
displacement, of particles, 64, 68–70, 72–73. See also Brownian motion
dispositif, 246; as experimental material, 250–51
dissemination of media technologies, 6, 10
distraction, 7, 9, 195, 240, 244; attention and, 133; Benjamin and, 201, 233, 235; Kracauer and, 233; proximity and, 190
Döblin, Alfred, 194
docile bodies (aka working objects), 42–44
doctor–patient relationship, 95, 126
documentary function, of medical filmmaking, 102–5
domestication of the image, 42–44, 51–62; of the body, 42–44. See also docile bodies
Don Quixote (novel), 236
Doodica (conjoined twin), 106
Doyen, Eugène Louis, 106–10, 279n63
“Drama in the Film Theaters” (Polgar), 220
Driesch, Hans, 32, 39
Duenschmann, Hermann, 210
Duhamel, Georges, 212
duration, 5, 60, 133, 246; cinematography and, 24, 86, 250. See also durée
Duration and Simultaneity (Bergson), 32
durée (duration), 32–33, 43, 74; form as interruption of, 62–64
Duttlinger, Carolin, 201, 240
 
Eclipse (film company), 155–56
educated middle-class (Bildungsbürgertum), 126, 134
education, 1, 5, 141; art education movement, 16, 149, 169–71, 176. See also adult education and motion pictures; aesthetic education, Anschauungsunterricht, elementary education and motion pictures
educational function, of medical filmmaking, 105–10
effects of media technologies, 244–45
efficiency, 38; as social goal, 38–42; and the human body, 38–42; in medicine, 109; of the filmic image, 109–10, 175–76, 210–11
eidetic images, 59
eidos, 59
Einfühlung (emotional projection, feeling into), 17, 202, 215–22, 224–29, 237, 307n51; body as model for, 222; contemplation and, 219, 230; Kino-Debatte and, 217, 220; movement and, 224–28; physical response and, 228–30; space and, 225–28
Einstein, Albert, 20–21, 24–25, 64, 66–69, 72–74, 87–88
elementary education and motion pictures, 176–84
Elias, Norbert, 144
embodied perception or vision, 214–30, 237. See also aesthetic experience; Einfühlung
embourgeoisement, 193
emotional projection. See Einfühlung
empathy, 216. See also Einfühlung
enemies of the cinema (Kinogegner), 130
energy, conservation of, 39–40
Enlightenment, 97, 132, 168, 201
entropy, 40
Epstein, Jean, 136, 250, 279n70
ergograph, 40
ergonomics, 41
Ernemann (film company), 28–29, 180
Essay Concerning Human Understanding (Locke), 211
“The Essence of Architectural Creation” (Schmarsow), 225
Europe, 36, 39, 97, 107, 147
evidence, creation of, 24–25
evil, children as, 163
evolutionary theory, 137
Exercises in the Contemplation of Art Works (Lichtwark), 170–72, 189
Exner, Felix, 66, 69–70
experiment: in biology, 82–83; characteristics of, 98–99; differential reproduction in, 250–51; disciplinary logic and, 23–24; historiographic implications of, 250–51; infrastructure for, 27–28; in medicine, 98–102; motion picture equipment manufacturers and, 28; motion pictures and, 22–24, 27, 88; popular audiences for, 28–29; time and, 139–40
experimental systems, 3–4, 10, 23–24, 64, 257n9
expert modes of viewing, 6–10, 24–25. See also observation
expert observation. See observation
expert training, 60, 95; advantages of cinematography for, 108; and professional identity, 94; and research films, 106, 117
expert viewers. See observation
expert vision. See observation
expert/lay distinctions, 11–13, 94–95, 245; historiographic implications of, 245
exploratory function, of medical filmmaking, 98–102
Eykman, P. H., 100
 
faithful to nature (Naturgetreu), 179, 181, 182
Fata Morgana (film theater), 28
fatigue, 39–42, 132, 187
Fechner, Gustav, 215
feeling into. See Einfühlung
female hysteria, 137
female spectatorship, 165, 231–32
film drama (Kino-drama), 157, 161, 164, 192
film exhibition, legal restrictions on, 159
film form, 4–5, 6, 14, 246, 249; correspondences between form and logic, 23–24; disciplinary logic and, 248; historiography and, 247
film frame, as spatial and temporal boundary, 116
filmic realism, 5, 157. See also Naturgetreu (faithful to nature)
Film-Idea-Central, 156
“Film in the Service of Medicine” (demonstration), 107
film reform, 152–62; distribution and, 159–60; exhibition and, 160, 184–90; foreign films and, 157; goals of, 155; Kino-Kommissions and, 155; Kinoreform and, 155; legacy of, 160–62; narrative and, 157; objections to motion pictures, 154; positive and negative approaches to, 153; production and, 156–59; trade journals and 152–53; uplift and, 154
film strip as line, 74–76
film studies, 3
Film und Lichtbild (periodical), 28
first law of thermodynamics, 40, 65
Fischer, Otto, 19–20, 24–26, 38, 41–44, 63. See also The Human Gait
Fleck, Ludwik, 5–7, 113, 249
flicker effect, 130–31, 154, 186, 192
flip books, 44
folk medicine, 126
Forel, Auguste, 135
form: geometry inherent in, 62–63, 74; as temporal interruption in duration, 74. See also abstraction: of movement
form drive, 205, 206
Foucault, Michel, 8, 42–43, 91, 115, 118–22
frame-by-frame analysis, 60, 98, 117, 125
France, 27–28, 90, 92, 147, 148
François-Franck, Charles Émile, 27, 76
Fränkel, James, 107
Frankfurter Zeitung, 236
free play of associations, 8
free will, 133, 231; aesthetic contemplation and, 201, 213, 214; aesthetic experience and, 201, 202–14; crowd psychology and, 166; identity and, 217. See also agency; volition; will
French Academy of Medicine, 106
Freud, Sigmund, 163–64, 210, 212, 309n72
From Caligari to Hitler (Kracauer), 301n145
 
Der Gang des Menschen (Braune and Fischer), 19. See also The Human Gait
Gaudreault, André, 13, 134
Gaumont (film company), 155
Gaumont, Charles, 76
Gaupp, Robert, 127–28, 136–37, 208
gaze: clinical or medical, 112, 115, 118–19; glance and, 7, 120–22; holistic, 7, 118, 120–21, 165. See also aesthetic contemplation, all-at-onceness, observation, Sehen, Schauen
“Gedanken zu einer Aesthetik des ‘Kino’ (Thoughts Toward an Aesthetic of the Cinema)” (Lukács), 202, 236
Geissler tubes, 46, 48–49, 51–52, 58
Geistesgegenwart (alertness or presence of mind), 212–14, 240
gender. See women
gender dynamics, 231
geometry, 58; inherent in form, 62–63, 74. See also abstraction: of movement
German High Ministry of War, 44
Germany, reaction to modernity, 13–14
Gesamtkunstwerk (Wagner), 32
Gesamtsinnlichkeit (sensuous totality), 224
Gesamtvorführung (total presentation), 188
Gesellschaft der Freunde des vaterländischen Schul- und Erziehungswesens (Society of Friends of the Schools and Instruction for the Fatherland), 154
Gesellschaft deutscher Naturforscher und Ärzte (Society of German Natural Scientists and Physicians), 83, 111
Gesellschaft zur Verbreitung von Volksbildung (Society for the Dissemination of Popular Education) (GVV), 152, 159
Geuss, Raymond, 144
Gewohnheit (habit), 235, 240
Giovanna d’Arco (The Maid from Orleans) (film), 160
glance, and gaze, 7, 120–22
Goerke, Franz, 105, 106
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von, 203, 236
Gordon, Rae Beth, 136
Götze, O., 131
Gouy, Louis-Georges, 66
Grau, Alexander, 243
Great Exhibition (1851), 174
Great Lisbon Earthquake, 203
Griffith, D. W., 248
Groedel, Franz, 101–2
Guerlac, Suzanne, 74
Gunning, Tom, 229, 247
gutta-percha, 51
GVV. See Gesellschaft zur Verbreitung von Volksbildung
Gymnasium (high school), 148, 152
 
habit (Gewohnheit), 235, 240
Hacking, Ian, 25, 43
Häfker, Hermann, 16, 152–53, 156, 172, 176–77, 243; contemplation and, 231, 233; Kinetographie and, 188; Lichtwark and, 189; model presentations and, 147, 184; photograph of, 185; taste and, 186; World War I and, 301n145
Hake, Sabine, 157, 161, 194
Hamburg commission, 152, 154, 165
Hansen, Miriam, 184, 231–32
Harrington, Anne, 32
Harris, Stefanie, 194
Harrison, Ross Granville, 77, 79, 80, 82–83, 85, 88
Hau, Michael, 118, 120, 122
health campaigns, 127
health insurance, 126
heat transference, 40, 65
Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich, 215
Heimat, 169
Heinrich von Ofterdingen (Novalis), 236
Held, Hans, 81, 83
Heller, Heinz-B., 194
Hellwig, Albert, 130, 154, 158, 166
Hennes, Hans, 103–6
Henri, Victor, 27, 69–70, 73
Herbart, Johann, 174, 176, 181–82, 215, 247
heterogeneity, 245; of early cinema, 2, 12, 13
high school (Gymnasium), 148, 152
high-speed cinematography, 27, 30, 76
Hildebrand, Adolf, 199, 221, 224–25
historiography, 4, 247; analogy and homology in, 249; disciplinary or expert use of film and, 14, 17, 246–47; Kino-Debatte and, 195; “tactile,” 246–50
History and Class Consciousness (Lukács), 235–36, 239–40
holistic gaze, 7, 118, 120–21, 165
Hollywood, mode of production and reception,11–12
Huelsenbeck, Richard, 232
Huerkamp, Claudia, 126
The Human Gait (Braune and Fischer), 19, 44–62; camera placement for, 50; coordinates graph for, 58, 59; coordinates table for, 57; determination of coordinates for, 53; instrument for coordinate measurements, 54; measurement of coordinate, 55; military recruit for, 47; resulting chronophotograph for, 52; subject at rest, 48; tridimensional model for, 61, 62
human locomotion, 19–20, 26, 38–39, 41–44. See also The Human Gait
human sciences, 36
Husserl, Edmund, 58–59
hypnotism, 138; cinema and, 136–37; as model for observation, 138–40; as model for spectatorship, 135–37
hysteria, 128, 137
 
Ibsen, Henrik, 128
identity: aesthetic experience and, 197, 214–30; class, 13, 122; free will and, 217; professional, 94, 95, 122, 124, 125; self-identity, 11, 13, 144, 174, 236
Image and Word (Bild und Wort society) (film exhibitions), 184
image archives, 97, 103–5, 114–16
image viewing (Bildbetrachtung), 10, 171, 189
imagination, 166, 211, 225; architecture and, 226; repose and, 197
imaginative faculty, 209–10
immutability, 31
improper viewing, 11, 94–95. See also spectatorship
incremental exposures, 248. See also series photography
Industrial Revolution, 39, 147–48
“Infantile Sexuality” (Freud), 163
infantilization, of audience, 245. See also children and crowds: analogies between
inner child, 162
Innerlichkeit (inwardness), 239–40
inner movement, 218. See also movement and: aesthetic contemplation; movement and: aesthetic experience
inscription devices, 10, 30–31
Institut de Sociologie, 40
Institut Marey, 27, 100
interdisciplinary research, 3
inwardness (Innerlichkeit), 239–40
Die Irrfahrten des Odysseus (The Wanderings of Odysseus) (film), 157, 158
 
Jacobj, Carl, 175
Janssen, Jules, 26
Jelavich, Peter, 194
journals, trade 152–53
 
Kade, August, 180
Kaes, Anton, 16, 193, 194
Kaiserin-Friedrich-Haus, 107
Kammer-Lichtspiele Theater, 234
Kant, Immanuel, 8, 172, 214–15; aesthetic contemplation and, 201; aesthetic experience and, 7, 195–99; citizenship and, 140–41; taste and, 191
Kästle, C., 100
Keene, Melanie, 174
Kelvin, Lord. See Thomson, William
Key, Ellen, 163
Kienzl, Hermann, 209–10
Kiesler, Frederick, 241
Killen, Andreas, 284n122
Der Kinematograph (trade journal), 152–53, 155, 184, 203
Kinematographie und Schule (Mendel), 180
Die kinematographische Unterrichtsstunde (The Cinematic Lesson Plan) (Lemke), 182, 183
Kinetographie, 188
Kinobuch (Pinthus), 239
Kino-Debatte, 16–17, 193–95, 201–2, 236, 241; aesthetic experience and, 208, 217; alertness and, 212; Einfühlung and, 217, 220; historiography and, 195; literary emphasis and, 194; somnambulism and, 212; traditional aesthetics and, 214
Kino-drama (film drama), 157, 161, 164, 192
Kinogegner (enemies of the cinema), 130
Kino-Kommissions, 155
Kinoreform, 153–55, 159, 160, 238. See also film reform
Kino und Kunst (Cinema and Art) (Häfker), 184
“Kino und Schaulust” (Serner), 228
Kitsch, 168
Kleibömer, Georg, 202–3
Koch, Robert, 26
Kosmographia, 180
Kracauer, Siegfried, 161, 202, 233–34, 240, 244, 301n145
Kraepelin, Emil, 103, 127
Kretz, Richard, 179
Krieger, Ernst, 243
kritischer Methode (critical method), 130. See also observation
Kultur and Zivilisation, 144–45
Kulturträger (bearers of culture), 127. See also physicians
Kunsterziehungsbewegung (art education movement), 16, 149, 169–71, 176
Der Kunstwart, 204
Kutner, Robert, 107, 109
kymograph, 41
 
laboratories, 19, 77, 81; motion pictures in, 16, 21, 22, 27–30, 92, 125
Ladenkinos (storefront cinemas), 126, 153
Landecker, Hannah, 81
Landerziehungsheime (country boarding schools), 149
Langbehn, August Julius, 168–69
Lange, Konrad, 134, 152, 154, 169–70, 186; Kino-drama and, 157; taste and, 143
Latour, Bruno, 30–31, 87
Laycock, Thomas, 119
lay viewers, 232, 245. See also spectatorship
Lebensphilosophie, 39
Le Bon, Gustave, 137, 164
legibility, 31, 221, 224, 249
legitimacy, 61, 100, 124, 244, 249; of motion pictures within a discipline, 1–2, 4–5, 9, 14, 24, 95, 122–23, 195, 217
Lemke, Hermann, 16, 146, 154, 158, 166, 178, 189, 247; Cinema Reform Association and, 155, 162; Film-Idea-Central and, 156; Herbart and, 181–82; Society for the Dissemination of Adult Education and, 159; Society for the Dissemination of Popular Education and, 152
Levin, Tom, 239
Lichtbild-Bühne (trade periodical), 167, 167
Lichtbilderei (film institute), 159–60
Lichtwark, Alfred, 163, 169–72, 189
Lipps, Theodor, 227–28, 230
local exhibition rights, 295n61
Locke, John, 210–11
locomotion: animal, 41, 45; human, 19–20, 26, 38–39, 41–44. See also The Human Gait
logic: disciplinary, 4–6, 9–10, 14–15, 23–24, 109, 248–49; film form and, 5–6, 23–24, 111–25; medical, 5, 16, 90–91, 111–25. See also patterns of use: film form and
Lombroso, Cesare, 128
Lomon, André, 102
Londe, Albert, 45
The Lonedale Operator (Griffith), 248
Luisen-Kino, 180
Lukács, Georg, 9, 194, 202, 240, 288n9, 311n98; child psychology and, 162; contemplation and, 235–37, 239; Romanticism and, 236; time and, 238
Lumière (film company), 28
Lynch, Michael, 43, 49, 59
 
Mach, Ernst, 65
Macintyre, John, 100
magazines, film 152–53
The Maid from Orleans (Giovanna d’Arco) (film), 160
Maiocchi, Roberto, 66, 68
Mantell, Gideon Algernon, 174
Marey, Étienne-Jules, 26, 40–42, 76, 117, 121; graphic method of, 19, 27, 40; movement and, 27; single-camera system of, 45
Marinescu, Gheorghe, 103
Marital Hygiene (film), 243
Marxism, 236
masculinity, 140, 150–51, 231
mathematical immanent in matter. See geometry
Matter and Memory (Bergson), 32
mean square displacement, 68. See also Brownian motion
“Measurement of the Temperature Dependency of Brownian Motion” (Seddig), 20
media ensemble (Medienverbund), 3, 178
media technology, 1–4, 9, 21, 189
medical demonstrations, 103–4
medical filmmaking, 92–93, 90–96, 98, 114, 243; documentary function of, 102–5; educational function of, 105–10; exploratory function of, 98–102; multiple functions of, 96–110; observation and, 110–25. See also cinematography, research film
medical gaze, 112, 115, 118–19. See also gaze; medical perception; observation
medical hermeneutics, 91
medicalization, of society, 127
medical logic, 5, 16, 90–91, 111–25. See also disciplinary logic, patterns of use: film form and
medical perception, 119–20. See also gaze; medical gaze; observation
medical way of thinking, 16. See also medical logic; disciplinary logic; patterns of use: film form and
medicine, 1, 7, 15–16, 103, 113, 122, 123; Doyen and, 106–07; folk, 126; photography and, 98, 112; social, 127; spectacle and, 279n63
Medienverbund (media ensemble), 3, 178
“Melody in the Cinema, or Immanent and Transcendental Music” (Bloch), 222
Mendel, Georg Victor, 180
mental development, 163
Messter, Oskar, 28–29
metaphysics, 239
“The Metropolis and Mental Life” (Simmel), 212
Michaelis, Anthony, 60
microcinematography, 27, 76, 92–93; medical filmmaking and, 98
microphotographs, 26
military, 42
mind, comparisons with motion pictures and modernity, 208–12
model presentations (Mustervorstellungen), 147, 184, 187
mode of perception (Benjamin), 12–13
Modern Hospital, 109
modernity, 36, 38, 143, 194, 200, 201, 235; cultural and social, 41; excesses of, 128, 130, 133, 142, 174, 189, 191; German reaction to, 13–14, 149–51; motion pictures as emblem of, 125–26, 134, 149, 186, 204, 208–9, 217; motion pictures as potential haven from, 187; pace of change within, 131–34, 203–4, 208; as series of shocks, 187, 192. See also social acceleration
modernity thesis, 13
Moll, Albert, 138
monopoly system, 295n61
moral weakness, 166
Mosso, Angelo, 40, 42
Le mouvement (Marey), 76
movement, 21, 40; aesthetic education and, 178–79; analysis of, 20, 38, 40, 44, 77, 115–16; animal locomotion, 41, 45; architecture and, 226; Bergson and, 33–34, 75, 87; contemplation and, 226, 230–31; education and, 178; Einfühlung and, 224–28; human locomotion, 19–20, 26, 38–39, 41–44; immobility and, 37–38; inner, 218; Marey and, 27; pathological, 104. See also Brownian motion; The Human Gait
Moving Picture World, 42
multicellular theory of nerve development, 77
Münsterberg, Hugo, 136, 209
music, 222–24
Musser, Charles, 231
Mustervorstellungen (model presentations), 147, 184, 187
Muybridge, Eadweard, 26–27, 45
 
Nature, 190–91
nature films, 187, 191
Naturgetreu (faithful to nature), 179, 181, 182
negative space, spectatorship as, 11, 250
neo-Kantian tradition, 199
nerve fibers, 76–88, 80
nervousness, 128
neurasthenia, 189
neurological diseases, 103
neurology, 92; cinematography and, 103–5
Newton, Isaac, 63, 65
Nielsen, Asta, 150, 193
Nietzsche, Friedrich, 128, 148
Noguès, Pierre, 27
nontheatrical uses of film, 2; disciplinary agendas and, 2
Nordau, Max, 128, 129, 131–34, 139
Novalis, 236
novels, 236; serialized, 151
Nye, Mary Jo, 68–69
 
objectivity, 9, 95, 123
object lesson, 16, 108, 145, 173–75, 177–79, 181, 183–84. See also Anschauungsunterricht
observation: the accommodation of motion pictures to, 5–6, 9–11, 111–12, 190; aesthetic contemplation and, 10, 135, 170–72, 195; aesthetic education and, 163, 168–71; Anschauungsunterricht and, 10, 145, 162, 172–76; analysis and synthesis and, 121, 124; attention and, 126; in biology, 80–82; as correlation, 8, 111–17, 175; detail and, 119–20, 139, 204, 246; disciplinary logic and, 6, 9–10, 23–24, 91, 92, 111–25; as engine of progress, 132; experiment and, 25, 123; gaze and glance as, 7, 119–22; gender and, 140, 165, 231–32; hypnotism and, 135, 138–40; as ideology, 8–9, 95; in medicine, 91, 97, 98, 110–25; as method of ordering thought, 123; modernity and, 132–34, 163, 189, 191–92; photography and, 179; as practice, 7, 113, 118–20; spectatorship and, 11, 13, 16, 91, 92, 95, 96, 110, 139–40, 163, 189, 191–92, 250, 251; temporality of, 118–26; theory and, 64, 66–67, 73, 80–81; training and, 6–7, 10–11, 146, 163, 171, 192, 145–46. See also all-at-onceness, analysis and synthesis; “critical method”; expert modes of viewing
On the Optical Sense of Form (Vischer), 215
opera, 224
optical unconscious, 86
“ordinary perception” (Bergson), 30, 33–36, 98, 102, 213, 235
organ function, 100
“The Origin of Geometry” (Husserl), 58
Ostwald, Wilhelm, 65
outgrowth theory of nerve development, 80, 81, 85
 
pace: human liberty or potential and, 208; of modern life. 131, 133, 134, 163, 173, 186, 189, 208, 244; of motion pictures, 5, 14, 118, 125, 126, 131, 139, 181, 200, 202, 210, 244; of observation, 93, 95, 139; superficiality and, 178, 203–4; tastelessness and, 186. See also modernity; observation; social acceleration
Paget, Sir James, 7, 91, 123
PAGU (film company), 157
Parnaland, Ambroise-François, 106
particle displacement, 64, 68–70, 72–73
passive and active viewers, 200, 232. See also expert/lay distinctions
passivity, 201, 232
Pasveer, Bernike, 113
Pathé Frérès, 28, 106
pathological movement, 104
pathology, 91
patterns of use: film form and, 20–22, 248–51; historiography and, 20–22, 246, 248–49; medicine and, 111, 121–23; professional identity and, 125
perception: apperception, 173–74, 181–82, 226–27; embodied, 215–17, 220, 231; direct (immediate or sensual), 7, 108, 110, 145, 172, 173, 221, 250; mode of (Benjamin), 12–13; “ordinary” (Bergson), 30, 33–36, 98, 102, 213, 235. See also aesthetic experience; medical gaze; medical perception; observation
Perrin, Jean, 69, 73
Pestalozzi, Johann Heinrich, 7, 148, 172–76, 181
Pfeffer, Wilhelm, 28
Pfemfert, Franz, 239
photogrammetry, 52
photography, 26, 29–30, 170, 193, 211, 216; Brownian motion and, 66–67, 69–70, 71, 73–75; medicine and, 97, 98, 104–05, 112–14, 115; Naturgetreu and, 179; series, 112–15, 116, 248. See also chronophotography
physical sciences, 36
physicians: as bearers of culture (Kulturträger), 127; doctor–patient relationship, 95, 126; as experts, 126–27
physics, 35, 40, 76–77; classical, 63, 65, 68; metaphysics, 239
physiology, 41, 97, 215, 225
Pinthus, Kurt, 194, 239
Pizon, Antoine, 27, 76
Plato, 211
play drive, 206–7
pleasure, visual, 228–29
Polgar, Alfred, 220, 221, 224
Polimanti, Osvaldo, 103
political consciousness, 233
politics, of contemplation, 230–42
Populist movement, 147
Porten, Henny, 193
positivism, 41
presence, 108, 110, 124, 237–38
primitivism, 296n80
The Problem of Form in the Fine Arts (Hildebrand), 221
Proceedings of the Royal Saxon Society for Sciences, 44
professional identity, 94, 95, 122, 124, 125
Progressive movement, 147
projection, 95, 102, 110, 117, 136; emotional. See Einfühlung; slow-motion, 118; speeds of, 117, 123, 125
proper viewing, 11, 94–95. See also observation
protoplasmic bridge theory of nerve development, 80, 81, 83
psychoanalysis, 86, 138
psychology: of children, 127, 146, 162–64; of crowds, 137, 146, 164–66; social, 162, 164
public health, 94, 127
public sphere, 16, 184; women in, 231
pulp fiction (Schundliteratur), 127, 151
 
quantitative frame analysis, 60, 98, 117, 125
Quo Vadis? (film), 159
 
Rabinbach, Anson, 39, 41, 166, 187
Radica (conjoined twin), 106
radiology, 92, 101
Ramón y Cajal, Santiago, 81
Rancière, Jacques, 199–200
Raumgestaltung (spatial creation), 226
Rauscher, Ulrich, 211–12
readability. See legibility
realism. See filmic realism
Refining the Cinema (Veredelung des Kinos), 156
reform: of clothing, 149–50; of education, 148–49, 151; of film, 147, 149, 152–62, 163, 172; in Germany, 147–52; Kinoreform, 152, 154–55, 160, 184, 238; Kulturkritik and, 148; modernity and, 149; spirit of, 147–62
Reformkinos, 180
regulation, of cinemas, 158–59
Reicher, Karl, 107
Reich Health Office, 284n122
Rembrandt as Educator (Langbehn), 168–69
repeatability, 98, 113
repose, 197, 207, 209
research film: 15, 19–26, 118, 187, 243, 248; Bergson and, 32–37; Brownian motion and, 62–76, 71, 72; disciplinary contexts of, 97; distribution of, 104; documentary function of, 102–5; educational function of, 105–10; exploratory function of, 98–102; medical, 92–93, 96–125; nerve fibers and, 76–88, 80; overview of, 26–31; public screening of, 107; science of work and, 37–44; tissue cultures and, 76–88. See also chronophotography; cinematography; The Human Gait; medical filmmaking
Rheinberger, Hans-Jörg, 24, 250
Richer, Paul, 103
Rieder, H., 100
Ries, Julius, 27, 76
Ritter, Christopher, 174
Ritzheimer, Kara, 151
Rockefeller Institute, 83
Romanticism, 236
Rosenthal, J., 100
Ross, Corey, 151
Rousseau, Jean-Jacques, 148
Runge, Philipp Otto, 170
Russia, 90
Rüswald, K. (teacher), 178
 
Saint-Louis Hospital, 104
Samuleit, Paul, 157
scanning (Schauen), 7, 225
Schaar, Eckard, 170
Schauen (scanning), 7, 225
Schaulust (scopophilia), 165, 228–30, 309n72
Schelling, Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph, 215
Schenk, Paul, 130
Schiller, Friedrich, 147, 191, 213, 215; aesthetic contemplation and, 190, 201; aesthetic education and, 167–68, 171; aesthetic experience and, 8, 14, 195–98, 204–7; form drive and, 205, 206; play drive and, 206–7; sense drive and, 204, 206; temporality and, 204–7; vision and, 190
Schlanger, Benjamin, 241
Schlüpmann, Heide, 231–32
Schmarsow, August, 225–27, 230
Schopenhauer, Arthur, 195, 199, 204, 215, 241; aesthetic experience and, 8, 196, 213, 235; self and, 214; temporality and, 207
Schultze-Naumberg, Paul, 150
Schülervorstellungen (commercial screenings for children), 181
Schulvorstellungen (screenings for classes), 181
Schumberg, Wilhelm, 42
Schund campaigns, 151–52, 154
Schundfilme (trashy films), 126, 157, 158
Schundliteratur (pulp fiction), 127, 151
Schuster, Paul, 103, 104
scientific filmmaking. See research film. See also chronophotography; cinematography; The Human Gait; medical filmmaking
scientific method, 15, 22, 32, 35, 37, 64, 117, 125, 127, 133, 135. See also experiment; observation
scientific observation. See observation
scientific theater, 180
scopophilia (Schaulust), 165, 228–30, 309n72
sea squirts (Botryllus), 76
second law of thermodynamics, 40, 65
Seddig, Max, 20–21, 25–26, 29, 64, 69–75, 87–88
Sehen (seeing), 7, 225
self, loss of, 197, 214
self-awareness, 208, 214
self-cultivation (Bildung), 141, 145
self-identity, 13, 144, 174
self-mastery, 245
Sellmann, Adolf, 1, 172, 178, 208
sense drive, 204, 206
sense impression (Anschauung), 172–73, 176
sensuality, 142–43
sensuous totality (Gesamtsinnlichkeit), 224
sensus communis (communal sense), 191
sequential images, 86
serialized novels, 151
series photography, 112–15, 116, 248. See also chronophotography; medicine; photography
Serner, Walter, 194, 228–29
sexual arousal, 228–29
sexual images, 128, 130
sexuality, 231
Shapin, Steven, 100
shocks, modernity as series of, 187, 192
Siedentopf, Henry, 77
Simmel, Georg, 212
slow-motion cinematography, 27, 86, 123
slow-motion projection, 118
Smoluchowski, Maryan, 73
Sobchack, Vivian, 220
social acceleration, 126, 131, 173, 202, 213, 244; Anschauungsunterricht and, 173–74. See also modernity; pace: human liberty or potential and
Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD), 292n34
social psychology, 162, 164
Society for the Dissemination of Popular Education (Gesellschaft zur Verbreitung von Volksbildung) (GVV), 152, 159
Society of Friends of the Schools and Instruction for the Fatherland (Gesellschaft der Freunde des vaterländischen Schul- und Erziehungswesens), 154
Society of German Natural Scientists and Physicians (Gesellschaft deutscher Naturforscher und Ärzte), 83, 111
Solvay, Ernest, 39
“Some Specific Features of the Medical Way of Thinking” (Fleck), 113
somnambulism, 212–13
soullessness, 239–40
spatial creation (Raumgestaltung), 226
SPD. See Social Democratic Party of Germany
spectacle, in medicine, 279n63
spectatorship, 146, 191, 200–202, 208; analysis, synthesis and, 165; children, crowds and, 162–65; embodied, 216, 220–25; gender and, 165, 231–32; hypnotism and, 135–37; observation and, 11, 13, 16, 91, 92, 95, 96, 110, 139–40, 163, 189, 191–92, 250, 251; theories of film, 11–12. See also improper viewing; lay viewers; negative space
“Spectacles of the Earth” (Häfker), 187
Spencer, Herbert, 175
“The Stage Considered as a Moral Institution” (Schiller), 167
staining techniques, 84–85
Stapel, Wilhelm, 204, 208
statistical aspect, of medical logic, 113
stillness and movement, 11, 122, 124, 226
stimulus shield, 212
storefront cinemas (Ladenkinos), 126, 153
Stratz, Carl Heinrich, 150
strobe effect, 51–52
Strobl, Karl Hans, 203, 208, 213
Studien zu einer Physiologie des Marsches (Zuntz and Schumberg), 42
subjectivity, 8, 190, 214, 215, 220; objectivity and, 95, 123
sublime, theory of the, 214
suggestibility, 136, 162, 164–65, 167
surgery of the dead, 108
“Surrealism” (Benjamin), 233
synesthesia, 221–22, 237
synthesis. See analysis and synthesis
Szczepaniak-Gillece, Jocelyn, 241
 
taste, 94, 143, 146, 147, 155, 160, 166, 200; aesthetics; morality and, 167–68; geometry of, 168; Häfker and, 186–89; ideology and, 191; nation and, 170–71; as sensus communis, 191; and vision, 145–46, 191
Tausk, Viktor, 210
technological reproducibility, 235
technology, 144; formal relationships in, 4; media, 1–4, 9
temperance movement, 127
temporal discontinuity. See continuity and discontinuity
temporal interruption, 64, 74
temporality: of aesthetic experience, 202–14; of observation, 118–26
temporal phenomena, 22
Tews, Johannes, 159
textual analysis. See analysis (close reading)
theater: cinema compared to, 236–39; scientific, 180
theory: disciplinary logic and, 24; observation and, 64, 66–67, 73, 80–81
Theory of the Novel (Lukács), 235–36, 240
thermodynamics, 40, 65, 67
Thomson, William (Lord Kelvin), 40
“Thoughts Toward an Aesthetic of the Cinema (Gedanken zu einer Aesthetik des ‘Kino’)” (Lukács), 202, 236
thought styles, 249, 250. See also disciplinary logic
Three Essays on Sexuality (Freud), 163
time, 197, 207; Lukács and, 238; reversibility of, 74–75; spatialization of, 62–64, 74; spectatorship and will and, 125–41. See also duration; durée; temporality
time-lapse cinematography, 23, 30, 84–85, 86, 87, 98, 123, 250; Braus and, 20; medical filmmaking and, 98
Tirol in Waffen (Tirol in Arms) (film), 160
tissue cultures, 76–88
Titchener, Edward B., 216
Tolstoy, Leo, 128
Tönnies, Ferdinand, 288n9
total presentation (Gesamtvorführung), 188
trade journals and magazines, 152–53
traditional aesthetics. See aesthetics
training film, 108
trashy films (Schundfilme), 126, 157, 158
triangulation, 52
Tucker, Jennifer, 26
tutelage, 140
two-sided chronophotography, 46. See also chronophotography; The Human Gait
 
UFA, 243, 244; cultural division of (Kulturabteilung), 243
ultramicroscope, 69, 70
Union-Theater, 219
United Kingdom, 90, 92, 106, 147–48
United States, 90, 92, 97, 107, 109, 147–48; Bergson and, 22, 32, 36; object lesson and, 16
University of Tübingen, 127, 134, 143, 152
uplift and educational film, 154
useful cinema, 2
 
Valéry, Paul, 90
Van Gehuchten, Arthur, 103
Veredelung des Kinos (Refining the Cinema), 156
Vierordt, Hermann, 45
Virchow, Rudolph, 119
virtual experiments, 84, 100
virtual witnessing, 84, 100
Vischer, Robert, 7, 215, 220, 222, 224–25
visual means of instruction. See Anschauungsunterrich
visual pleasure, 228–29
vitalism and mechanism, 39–40
vividness (Anschaulichkeit), 107–8, 179
Vlès, Fred, 27
volition, 133, 286n143. See also agency; free will
von Bergmann, Ernst, 107
von Helmholtz, Hermann, 40, 215
 
Wagner, Richard, 32, 128
The Wanderings of Odysseus (Die Irrfahrten des Odysseus) (film), 157, 158
Wanderkino, 160
Warstat, Willi, 186
Weber, Max, 3
Weber, Wilhelm, 263n58
Weber brothers, 45
Weichardt, Wilhelm, 42
Weimar Republic, 151
Weisenburg, Theodore, 103
“What Is Enlightenment?” (Kant), 140
wholeness and fragmentation, 36–37
Wilhelm II (kaiser), 148, 218
Wilhelm Meister (Goethe), 236
will 139. See also agency; free will
Wolf-Czapek, K. W., 124
Wolgast, Heinrich, 171
women, 151; clothing reform and, 149–50; elite and, 150; hysteria and, 137; in public sphere, 150–51, 231; spectatorship by, 165, 231–32
Women’s Clothing and Its Natural Development (Stratz), 150
working class, 232
“Work of Art” (Benjamin), 195, 201, 218, 233, 240
working objects. See docile bodies
The World as Will and Representation (Schopenhauer), 215
World War I, 13, 159, 161–62, 193, 202, 236, 241; class and, 232; gender dynamics and, 231; Häfker and, 301n145; health campaigns and, 127; Kulturabteilung and, 243; X-ray cinematography and, 102
Wundt, Wilhelm, 215
 
X-rays, 97, 113–14; cinematography, 27, 100–102, 101
 
Zeiss, Carl, 28, 77
Zivilisation and Kultur, 144–45
Zoological Gardens, 156
Zsigmondy, Richard, 77
Zuntz, Nathan, 42