Babel and Babylon : : Spectatorship in American Silent Film / / Miriam Hansen.
Although cinema was invented in the mid-1890s, it was a decade more before the concept of a "film spectator" emerged. As the cinema began to separate itself from the commercial entertainments in whose context films initially had been shown--vaudeville, dime museums, fairgrounds--a particul...
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| Year of Publication: | 2021 |
| Language: | English |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Acknowledgments
- Contents
- Introduction: Cinema Spectatorship and Public Life
- I Rebuilding the Tower of Babel: The Emergence of Spectatorship
- 1 A Cinema in Search of a Spectator: Film-Viewer Relations before Hollywood
- 2 Early Audiences: Myths and Models
- 3 Chameleon and Catalyst: The Cinema as an Alternative Public Sphere
- II Babel in Babylon: D. W Griffith's Intolerance (1916)
- 4 Reception, Textual System, and Self-Definition
- 5 "A Radiant Crazy-Quilt": Patterns of Narration and Address
- 6 Genesis, Causes, Concepts of History
- 7 Film History, Archaeology, Universal Language
- 8 Hieroglyphics, Figurations of Writing
- 9 Riddles of Maternity
- 10 Crisis of Femininity, Fantasies of Rescue
- III The Return of Babylon: Rudolph Valentino and Female Spectatorship (1921-1926)
- 11 Male Star, Female Fans
- 12 Patterns of Vision, Scenarios of Identification
- Notes
- Illustration Credits
- Index