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This article considers what time-based audio-visual media can bring to historical scholarship in science and visual culture studies. The author argues that the history and critical analysis of cinematography and other time-based optical research methods used in the social, life and physical sciences, are productively accomplished through a simultaneously theory- and practice-bound model of multimedia history. She introduces the concept and term cinehistory through analysis of her own film and video installation work, focusing specifically on her Experiments on Film project (2004–2011), a series of multisensory, filmic histories of physiologist and inventor Étienne-Jules Marey’s development of underwater chronophotography in the 1890s.

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chronophotography digital humanities Étienne-Jules Marey experimental cinema theory/practice science documentary

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