The Hygienic Apparatus traces how the environmental effects of industrialization reverberated through the cinema of Germany's Weimar Republic. The book analyzes classic films, documentaries, cinema architecture, and studio practices.
Edited by Jonathan Gottschall and David Sloan Wilson
Foreword by E. O. Wilson and Frederick Crews
In recent years, articles in major periodicals from the New York Times Magazine to the Times Literary Supplement have heralded the arrival of a new school of literary studies that promises-or threatens-to profoundly shift the current paradigm. This revolutionary approach, known as Darwinian literary studies, is based on a few simple premises: evolution has produced a universal landscape of the human mind that can be scientifically mapped; these universal tendencies are reflected in the composition, reception, and interpretation of literary works; and an understanding of the evolutionary foundations of human behavior, psychology, and culture will enable literary scholars to gain powerful new perspectives on the elements, form, and nature of storytelling.
