Tuesday, March 20th, 5 – 6:30 PM
NAC 6/316 (The Rifkind Center for the Arts and Humanities Room)

More info here https://www.ccny.cuny.edu/calendar/reading-and-discussion-andreas-killen-homo-cinematicus-science-motion-pictures-and-making

Professor Andreas Killen (Dept. of History) will discuss his new book, “Homo Cinematicus: Science, Motion Pictures and the Making of Modern Germany”, a novel reinterpretation of early 20th century German film history that looks at the ways experts in fields like psychiatry, sexology, psychoanalysis and racial hygiene used motion pictures to produce and communicate knowledge of human subjects.  From the diagnosis and treatment of shell-shocked soldiers during the First World War, to the study of emotions and sexual behavior during the Weimar era, and up to the Nazi dream of inventing a New Man, scientific film-making played a central role in fashioning a distinctively German form of modernity.