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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

Intro -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Acknowledgements -- 1 Introduction -- References -- 2 Theory, literature and methodology -- 2.1 The image of the city -- 2.1.1 Lynch's image system -- 2.1.2 Discussion and applications of Lynch's findings in film studies -- 2.1.3 City as a destination and its image-related research -- 2.2 The language of film -- 2.2.1 Film language as a system -- 2.2.2 Cinematic city -- 2.2.3 Film tourism -- 2.3 Introduction of two case studies -- 2.3.1 Cinema of Taiwan -- 2.3.2 Edward Yang and his films -- 2.3.3 Arvin Chen and his films -- 2.3.4 Taipei as the city -- 2.4 Methods and methodology -- 2.4.1 Picture and video interpretation in the documentary method -- 2.4.2 Film language interpretation -- 2.4.3 Interpretation method and process applied in this research -- References -- 3 Yi Yi: Nostalgia upon diaspora -- 3.1 Narrative structure interpretation: the time-space representation -- 3.2 Pictorial interpretation of the image of the city in Yi Yi -- 3.2.1 Formulation interpretation of the sequence structure of the image of the city -- 3.2.2 Mise-en-scène interpretation of focusing metaphors -- 3.2.2.1 Path: Index of city and Symbol of the stage -- 3.2.2.2 Node: Symbol of affair and Index of communication -- 3.2.2.3 Landmark: characteristic inherent to people in the city -- 3.2.2.4 Edge: starting point to flashing back memory -- 3.2.2.5 District: blur of complexity -- 3.2.2.6 Mise-en-scène in total: the city as a protagonist -- 3.2.3 Reflective Interpretation of Montage: similarity induced nostalgia -- 3.3 Text and sound dimension of the image of the city -- 3.3.1 Text interpretation: nostalgia induced by the familiar city space -- 3.3.2 Environmental sound: nostalgia for the time passing by in the modern city -- 3.4 Overall interpretation of the image of the city -- References.