Schultz-Figueroa, BenjaminBenjaminSchultz-Figueroa2023-07-042023-07-042023978-0-52097-460-9https://repository.vlu.edu.vn/handle/123456789/6310University of California Press - CC-BY-NC - https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/jj.1791902 - 270 pagesIn The Celluloid Specimen, Benjamín Schultz‑Figueroa examines rarely seen behaviorist films of animal experiments from the 1930s and 1940s. These laboratory recordings-including Robert Yerkes's work with North American primate colonies, Yale University's rat‑based simulations of human society, and B. F. Skinner's promotions for pigeon‑guided missiles-have long been considered passive records of scientific research. In Schultz‑Figueroa's incisive analysis, however, they are revealed to be rich historical, political, and aesthetic texts that played a crucial role in American scientific and cultural history-and remain foundational to contemporary conceptions of species, race, identity, and society.en-USCommunication StudiesFilm StudiesZoologyHistory of Science & TechnologyGeneral ScienceResource Types::text::book