Babel and Babylon : spectatorship in American silent film / Miriam Hansen.
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TextPublication details: Cambridge, Mass. ; London : Harvard University Press, 1994.Description: x, 377 p. ; pbkISBN: - 0674058313 (pbk.) :
- 9780674058316 (pbk.)
- 9780674058316:
- Silent films -- United States -- History and criticism
- Motion picture audiences -- United States -- History
- Feminism and motion pictures
- Film history, theory & criticism
- United States of America, USA
- Dance
- United States -- Social life and customs -- 1865-1918
- Cinema Films (Motion pictures) Audiences History
- United States
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Introduction: Cinema Spectatorship and Public Life -- [PART I: 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.
[PART II: 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 of history -- Film history, archaeology universal language -- Hieroglyphics, figurations of writing -- Riddles of maternity -- Crisis of femininity, fantasies of rescue.
[PART III: The Return of Babylon: Rudolph Valentino and female spectatorship (1921-1926)] Male star, female fans -- Patterns of vision, scenarios of identification.
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