Sunday, April 3, 2011

Babel and Babylon: Spectatorship in American Silent Film



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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 a... More >>

Babel and Babylon: Spectatorship in American Silent Film

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