Download or read book Homo Cinematicus written by Andreas Killen and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2017-06-20 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Situated at the intersection of film studies, the history of science and medicine, and the history of modern Germany, Homo Cinematicus: Science, Motion Pictures, and the Making of Modern Germany connects the emergence of cinema as a social institution to an inquiry into the history of knowledge production in the human sciences.