Oliver Gaycken
oliver.gaycken@temple.edu
215-204-1798
 Oliver Gaycken received his BA in English from Princeton University and his Ph.D.
from the University of Chicago. His teaching interests include silent-era cinema
history, the history of popular science, and the links between scientific and
experimental cinema. He has published on the discovery of the
ophthalmoscope, the flourishing of the popular science film in France at the
turn of the 1910s, the figure of the supercriminal in Louis Feuillade's serial
films, and the surrealist fascination with popular scientific images. He is
currently writing about the figure of the detective/scientist in the films of Billy
Wilder and conducting research into the American popular science film before
1920. His book project is entitled "Devices of Curiosity: Cinema and the Scientific
Vernacular."
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