Hansen, Miriam. <br/><br/>
Babel and Babylon :  Spectatorship in American Silent Film. 

 - 1st ed. 
 - 1 online resource (390 pages) 
<br/><br/>Intro -- 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. 
<br/><br/> Focusing on exemplary moments in the American silent era, Hansen explains how the concept of the spectator evolved as a crucial part of the classical Hollywood paradigm--as one of the new industry's strategies to integrate ethnically, socially, and sexually differentiated audiences in a modern culture of consumption. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780674038295 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Silent films-United States-History and criticism.<br/>Motion picture audiences-United States-History.<br/>Feminism and motion pictures.<br/>United States-Social life and customs-1865-1918.
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>Electronic books.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>PN1995 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>791.43/0973/09041