Babel and Babylon Spectatorship in American Silent Film

Name: Babel and Babylon Spectatorship in American Silent Film
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ISBN: 9780674058316

ISBN-10: 0674058313

ISBN-13: 9780674058316

Edition: 1991

Authors: Miriam Hansen

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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 particular concept of its spectator was developed on the level of film style, as a means of predicting the reception of films on a mass scale. In Babel and Babylon Miriam Hansen offers an original perspective on American film by tying the emergence of spectatorship to the historical transformation of the public sphere. Hansen builds a critical framework for understanding the cultural formation of spectatorship,…

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List price: $49.00
Copyright year: 1991
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Publication date: 3/15/1994
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 390
Size: 6.13" wide x 9.25" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.100
Language: English

The lateMiriam Bratu Hansenwas Ferdinand Schevill Distinguished Service Professor in the Humanities at the University of Chicago and the founding chair of what is now the Department of Cinema and Media Studies. Her publications includeBabel and Babylon: Spectatorship in American Silent Filmand numerous essays in international film history and film theory.



Introduction: Cinema Spectatorship and Public Life



Rebuilding the Tower of Babel: The Emergence of Spectatorship



A Cinema in Search of a Spectator: Film-Viewer Relations before Hollywood



Early Audiences: Myths and Models



Chameleon and Catalyst: The Cinema as an Alternative Public Sphere



Babel in Babylon: D. W. Grffith's Intolerance (1916)



Reception, Textual System, and Self-Definition



""A Radiant Crazy-Quilt"": Patterns of Narration and Address



Genesis, Causes, Concepts